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History of the 

Seattle 

Police Department 

1923 



The members of the 

Seattle Police Department desire to thank their many friends 
who have contributed their support to the Police Department 
and who have made possible this publication. 

Each member adds his personal 
word of appreciation. 


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Introduction 

I N COMPILING this History of the Seattle Police Department it has been 
the aim to set forth in brief the development of the department from its 
inception, and to give the community at large some idea of the work and 
deeds accomplished since our first chief of police took office in 1859, as well as 
an outline of the various departments connected with police work in Seattle. 

Cosmopolitan atmosphere penetrates all walks of life, and the Police 
Department has even more than its share of interesting characters. It was from 
this fact, and also the fact that a history of the department was at this time 
deemed advisable, that made this book take its present form. 

For assistance in getting data for this volume thanks are due Mayor Edwin 
J. Brown, Chief of Police W. B. Severyns, Inspector of Police Harry G. 
O’Brien, Captains J. T. Mason, Charles Tennant and E. C. Collier, Lieuten¬ 
ants G. V. Hasselblad and H. D. Michener, Sergeant F. C. Fuqua, Rev. M. A. 
Matthews and Rev. Cannon W. H. Bliss, Major Paul Edwards (Port Warden), 
Prof. E. S. Meany (U. of W.), Judge King Dykeman, Judge John B. Gordon, 
T. J. L. Kennedy (Corporation Counsel), members of the press staff, G. G. 
Evans, R. E. McCullough and L. M. Mclnnis, the University Chamber of 
Commerce, and many others. /In fact, all the superior officers and office force 
connected with the Police Department were so helpful it is difficult to discrimi¬ 
nate and name some as helping more than others. 

The photographs used were furnished by -Webster U Stevens, Hartsook 
Studio, Frank H. Nowell, Mushet Studio, The Post-Intelligencer, The Times, 
Journal of Commerce, the Piiblic Library, apd many others. The engravings 
were made by the Acme Engraving Company. 

The printing is from the press of the Grettner-Diers Printing Company, 
and much credit is due William Grettner for assistance rendered. 

A member of the Police Department is at all times exposed to danger, and 
his life at any moment may be ended in endeavoring to capture a criminal, so 
if the contents of this publication shall have stimulated reverence and gratitude 
for past worthy deeds of our Police and creates sympathy with the patriotic and 
legal principles which animated them, then the members of the Seattle Police 
Department have been well repaid. 



August 1, 1923. 


Editor. 





Seattle’s Department of Police 

Mayor’s Office, Seattle, Wash. 

D ESPITE criticism to the contrary, the records prove that Seattle’s Police 
Department is improving every day, which convinces me that our police 
officers are, as a rule, doing their duty as they understand it. 

The first police department was organized in London in 1829, and the 
policemen were known and spoken of as “the bobbies”; they were usually jolly, 
old, fat men and were little heeded by the rougher, rowdy element of society and 
given no recognition by the better class. 

Police officers are in reality peace officers, and their duty is to enforce ordi¬ 
nances, laws, rules and regulations, and preserve the peace where a violation of 
law takes place within their notice. 

Three of the most important and necessary officers in the City of Seattle 
are the Chief of Police, the Chief of Detectives and the Inspector of Police. 

Police Compensation 

Our peace officers should receive compensation sufficient to afford them a 
comfortable living and put them beyond temptation (the lowest pay on the 
police force should be $2,000 per year). This would elevate the peace official 
to the dignity that his position justifies. 

The Police Department 

I believe our city is today policed far better and at a less cost to the tax 
payers than any other Coast city. The police department of any city will be 
just what the people of that city as a whole decree it shall be. It should ever 
be remembered that a police department does not create its own environment, but 
that it is subjected to the environment created by the city it serves. 

I take pride in making special mention of our police band and our 1922 
field sport meet, and it is my hope that our firemen will revive and reorganize 
their band and engage in field sports so that the two departments may have that 
friendly competition which creates good fellowship and co-operation that will 
guarantee to our city a high standard of efficiency and loyalty. 





Mayor Edwin J. Brown 







Chief of Police W. B. Severyns 

By Lewie Williams 


W ILLIAM B. SEVERYNS, Chief of Police, was appointed to this office June 5th, 
1922, by Mayor Edwin J. Brown, was thirty-four years of age at the time of his 
selection, and has the distinction of being the youngest man to fill this position in 

Seattle. 

Mr. Severyns was born at Elton, Nebraska, November 28th, 1887. His parents were 
natives of Liege, Belgium. 

From Nebraska the family moved to San Diego, California, in 1894. William B. fin¬ 
ished grammar school and one year of high school in San Diego. 

The death of his father in 1901 interrupted his school work for some time, as well as 
the future plans of the family. The father, shortly before his death, had purchased a large 
wheat ranch near Prosser, Washington, and was making preparations to move there with his 
family. The mother finally completed the plans and moved with her little family of five 
children to Prosser in 1902. The experience of developing a wheat ranch in a pioneer coun¬ 
try was a new one to the mother and the children, and many hardships were undergone 
by all before the ranch was placed on a paying basis. As soon as possible William resumed 
his school work, entering the Prosser High School in 1906. 

Very early in life William developed an ambition to be a lawyer, and all through his 
high school course took an active interest in debate and oratory, winning a number of state 
contests in this work. He also took an interest in athletic work and gained considerable 
prominence in this field. 

After graduating from high school in 1908 he entered the University of Washington 
and began the study of law. While in the University he continued his work in athletics and 
won his “W” and honors in track work. He finished his law course in 1912 and was admit¬ 
ted to practice law in the fall of that year. 

During his study of law he spent considerable time on the law of evidence, and after 
graduation decided to take up this branch of the work before opening a law office. At this 
time he was offered and accepted a position with the Burns International Detective Agency 
and was put in charge of special investigation work covering an important highway contract 
in Southwestern Washington. This case being successfully concluded, he then took up the 
study of accounting, scientific detection of handwriting and “applied criminology,” and 
gave special attention to this work for some time. 

In 1913 he was given charge of the investigation of one of the most important cases 
in the history of the Dominion of Canada. Later he was employed by Governor Lister of 
the State of Washington to investigate the industrial insurance frauds. Since that time he 
has had charge of many important investigations in this state and on the Pacific Coast. It 
is recognized by those who know of his work that he has met success where many have failed. 
His success, no doubt, has been due to his legal training and special study of the law of evi¬ 
dence, his perseverance in “finishing anything he undertakes,” and his absolute loyalty to client 
and friend. 

Mr. Severyns has maintained his residence in Seattle since 1908. He was married July 
7th, 1913, to Miss Frances M. Martin, who was a college classmate. To them have been born 
three children. When interviewed by the press at the time of his appointment as chief of 
police, Mrs. Severyns said: “If he makes as good a chief of police as he has a husband and 
father the mayor and citizens of Seattle will have no cause for regret.” 

Mr. Severyns has already proved his ability and capacity for the position he holds, 
and the department reflects his leadership. 



Chief W. B. Severyns 



Inspector of Police H. G. O’Brien 

H ARRY G. O’BRIEN was born in Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He re¬ 
ceived his earlier education in the grade schools of Westford and the Westford Academy, 
one of the oldest academic institutions in the New England states. Thereafter he con¬ 
tinued his studies with unflagging industry, though along more special lines and in a large 
measure independently. He became interested in criminology and sociology and had made quite 
an intensive study of these subjects when he enrolled as a student under Muensterburg, one of 
the world’s greatest psychologists and criminologists. 

Inspector O'Brien entered the Seattle Police Department in 1907; he was made a Sergeant 
and placed in charge of the Juvenile Division in 1913, in which capacity he served until en¬ 
listing in the Army in June, 1916, when the United States was having trouble with Mexico. 

He went to the Mexican border as a private in Company “A,” Field Signal Battalion. 
While at the border O'Brien passed every qualification for Lieutenant and later, when war was 
declared on Germany, was transferred to the 1 1 6th Field Battalion at Camp Lewis. He was 
made a Captain in August, 1917, and went overseas in November of the same year. He took part 
in all the major engagements in France as a member of the 9th Field Signal Battalion, attached 
to the 5th Division; was wounded and gassed on October 16th, 1918, and was in the hospital 
until February, 1919, being made a Major in recognition of his services at the front. 

Upon being discharged in February from the hospital he was assigned to General Head¬ 
quarters, Division of Criminal Investigation, at Chaumont, France. This duty took him over 
almost all of Europe and all the principal cities in Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Holland 
and the British Isles. 

He came home from Europe late in 1919 and was discharged January 1st, 1920, with 
the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and returned to duty as a Sergeant in the Police Department. 

In May, 1920, he was made a Lieutenant of Police, in which capacity he served until ap¬ 
pointed Inspector of Police by Chief W. B. Severyns in August, 1922. He enjoys the unique 
distinction of being the first Inspector of Police ever appointed from the officers of the Depart¬ 
ment below the rank of Captain. 

As Inspector of Police O’Brien is charged with the appointment, equipment and assign¬ 
ment of the members of the Police Department, subject to the approval of the Chief of Police, 
and in the absence or disability of the Chief of Police with the responsibility of Acting Chief. 
It is of some concern, therefore, and especially in a Police Department, that the Inspector of 
Police be an impartial executive and possess to some extent that invaluable asset consisting in a 
knowledge of men, that he may ascertain as near as possible their characteristics in order to suc¬ 
cessfully assign them to posts to which they are best adapted. 

Inspector O’Brien’s various experiences have tended to extend his horizon and his views 
of life and its significance. His enviable record both in and out of the Department cannot fail 
to command respect and admiration. 



Inspector H. G. O'Brien 



History of the Seattle Police Department 



Captain J. T. Mason 

President of Seattle Police Sports Association 


C APTAIN JOSEPH T. MASON was born at 
Muskegon, Michigan, March 19th, 1876. His 
parents brought him to Puget Sound in his early in¬ 
fancy, and he grew to manhood in King County, in 
the vicinity of New Castle, and on Cedar River, and 
obtained his education in the public schools, and at 
Mt. Angel College, Portland. It will be seen that he 
is a real Westerner. He entered the Department August 
20th, 1902, and during the first year of his service he 
was advanced two grades, and made first grade patrol¬ 
man for his spectacular capture of the bandit George 
Van Asselt, alias Frank Humboldt, alias Frank Van 
Horst. 

Patrolman Mason was promoted to Sergeant Jan¬ 
uary 28th, 1 9 10; to Lieutenant January 1st, 1914, and 
to Captain January 1st, 1919. 

Everyone in the Seattle Police Department knows 
Captain “Joe” Mason. He is in charge of Patrol No. 1, 
at Precinct No. 1, and all brother officers will vouch that 
he is No. 1 in the thoughts of all who know him. 

During 1921 in a contest to decide the most popu¬ 
lar member of the Seattle Police Department, the win¬ 
ner to be sent by the Seattle Times to the World Series 
baseball games, he was elected by a large majority. 

Captain Mason has been President of the Seattle 
Police Sports Association since its organization, and 
under his supervision we all rest assured that this organ¬ 
ization will be as successful in the future as it has been 
in the past. Good luck. Captain! 


T IEUTENANT G. V. HASSELBLAD will never be 
President of the United States, having selected 
Sweden as the scene of his first appearance on earth; but 
he is a president, just the same. There was no reason 
why he shouldn’t be president of the Seattle Police Band, 
and a good many reasons why he should, being himself 
a musician and a great lover of music. So he is presi¬ 
dent of the Band, and vice-president of the Police 
Athletic Association, and member of the Police Pension 
Board, and captain of the Police tug-of-war team, all 
of which gives him something to do in addition to 
the faithful discharge of the duties of a high officer in 
the department. 

Lieut. Hasselblad is 41 years old and has made his 
home in Seattle since April 7, 1901. On July 3, 1908, 
he entered the police department as a patrolman. Janu¬ 
ary 1, 1913, he received the well-earned New Years 
gift of promotion to be sergeant. March 3, 1920, 
just a little in advance of his thirty-eighth birthday 
anniversary, he was made lieutenant. 

Off duty and aside from his service to the band 
and other police organizations, Lieut. Hasselblad finds 
outlet for his surplus energy in his fraternal and club 
connections. He is a Mason and a Shriner; is affiliated 
with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Fra¬ 
ternal Order of Eagles, and is one of the liveliest and 
most active of the associate members of the Seattle 
Press Glub. 



Lieutenant G. V. Hasselblad 

Vice-President Seattle Police Sports Association 
President or Seattle Police Band 
Member of Pension Board 






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Lieutenant J. W. Smith 

Secretary Seattle Police Sports Association 


j^IEUTENANT J. W. SMITH, a native son of the 
Evergreen State, is familiar as Desk and Booking 
Office official for more than a dozen years, and a prince 
of good fellows. Born at Sequim, Washington, July 
21st, 1874, he is familiar with the early history and 
struggles of the Olympic peninsula and of the State, saw 
Port Townsend rise to a position of importance among 
the cities of the State, and then be rapidly distanced in 
growth by the cities nearer the great body of the State. 
Thereupon the future officer resolved to seek his fortunes 
in Seattle, and came here and joined the Department 
October 4th, 1906. He was promoted to Sergeant Jan¬ 
uary 1st, 1909—in the space of time it ordinarily re¬ 
quires for an officer to reach the grade of First Grade 
Patrolman, and was promoted to Lieutenant March 
1 1th, 1920. 

Lieutenant Smith has three hobbies, one in the 
Department and two out. They are his children, hunt¬ 
ing and police sports. He was one of the originators 
of the Seattle Police Sports Association, and has served 
as its secretary since its foundation. He has handled 
the detail work of the Association, writing the rules 
and by-laws, and helped to carry the first athletic meet, 
in September, 1922, to a most successful conclusion. 
The second annual police athletic meet, in which police 
teams from Portland, Seattle, Vancouver and Victoria, 
B. C., will compete, are to be held in Seattle next fall, 
and Lieutenant Smith is now getting the details ready 
for the cinder track. 

Lieutenant Smith has charge of the district north 
of Madison Street, to Lake Washington and the canal, 
and is known to the public as an efficient and likeable 
officer. 


j^IEUTENANT R. W. OLMSTED joined the 
Department in May, 1907, and immediately began 
laying the foundation for his successive advances by his 
good police work, unerring judgment and his treat¬ 
ment of the public. On January 1, 1913, he was pro¬ 
moted to sergeant. This advance was followed by his 
gaining his lieutenancy on May 5, 1920. 

The Olmsted family seemingly has a penchant 
for police work as the roster of the present force con¬ 
tains the names of two brothers of that clan and a 
third had been a ranking officer for many years. Of 
the three perhaps the one worthiest of mention is Lieut. 
Ralph W. Olmsted, one of the most efficient, level¬ 
headed and courteous officials in the department. Sheer 
ability has marked his rise from the ranks and despite 
handicaps of various kinds, he stands first on the list 
for a captaincy. 

He has been stationed at headquarters and in the 
downtown business district for years and is known to 
the general public as of a type of police officer who is 
a credit to any city. Not only of a prepossessing appear¬ 
ance in uniform, Lieut. Olmsted possesses that rare 
faculty of good judgment and just dealing that sets the 
owner out and above the average class of police officer. 

Lieut. Olmsted was born in Beaver City, Nebraska, 
on May 28, 1883. He was a roofer by trade before be¬ 
coming a policeman. He is married and his principal 
object in life is providing a happy home for his wife 
and young son. 



Lieutenant R, W. Olmsted 

Treasurer Seattle Police Sports Association 







History of the Seattle Police Department 


Our Police 

By Rev. M. A. Matthews 


O NE is forced to ask 
the question, Do 
the people com¬ 
prehend the meaning of 
the words, “Our Po¬ 
lice?” Perhaps there 
are three ideas that 
might be expressed by 
the people: 

First —The police 
constitute a necessary 
but disassociated force 
—disassociated from the 
public consciousness, 
public appreciation, 
public co-operation, and 
public assistance. 

Second —The police constitute indifferent, unim¬ 
portant agents of a much used and often abused muni¬ 
cipal government. 

Third —The police constitute a group of men rep¬ 
resenting the citizens in the discharge of duty, the en¬ 
forcement of law, the protection of life and property. 
They are near and dear to all the people. 

The last view named is the correct view. The 
policemen are the agents of the people. They represent 
all the people. They are the concrete mobilization of all 
the people. Every citizen is embodied in the police 
force. Every citizen is represented in a mobilized form 
in the policemen who control the beats, protect the city, 
and direct its law enforcement. They are the proxies 
of all law-abiding, God-fearing, honest citizens. 

There are four fundamental facts that should be 
taken into consideration: 

First —It is impossible to run a city without police¬ 
men. No community can govern itself. Authority 
must be delegated. It must be vested in somebody. 
That individual or those individuals must represent the 
law-enforcing, good government-believing, righteous 
citizenship of every community. Each community 
must be governed, controlled, directed, and kept under 
rigid, constructive discipline. 

Second —Each community must be adequately po¬ 
liced. It is a crime against the citizenship, against the 
policemen, and against law for a city to be inadequately, 
inefficiently, and incompetently policed. It is a crime 
to hold one policeman responsible for forty blocks. 
The city government, the city council, and the citizens 
themselves are responsible for every murder, infraction 
of law, and the destruction of every piece of property 
resulting from the insufficient, inadequate policing of a 
city. In other words, if a policeman is required to 
control and to keep in perfect order forty blocks, and 
if within those forty blocks crime is committed because 


of the physical impossibility of that one policeman to 
cover forty blocks, then the city government, the city 
council, and the citizens-at-large are responsible for the 
crime that might have been prevented had there been 
two or ten policemen assigned to that same territory. 

Third —Policemen ought to be men of perfect 
physical ability, matchless courage, unquestioned judg¬ 
ment, and they should be thoroughly equipped. If a 
policeman has performed his duty—conscientiously per¬ 
formed his duty—for eight, nine or ten hours he ought 
to have the rest, comfort and ease that that over-strained 
body needs. 

Every policeman should be required to attend tar¬ 
get practice and become an expert shot. He should be 
forced to master the science of marksmanship. A police¬ 
man unable to hit the bull’s-eye nine times out of every 
ten should not be allowed on the beat. 

The public should learn this fact: a policeman 
is not a target for thieves, thugs, robbers and murderers. 
He is a soldier. He is the proxy or the substitute of the 
best citizens in the city. Where is the citizen who will 
enter an alley at midnight as a target for the highway¬ 
man? A policeman is not a target. He is a soldier, and 
he has no right, representing the citizenship of a com¬ 
munity as he does, to stand still in an alley and allow 
a thief, robber, or a highwayman to shoot him down. 
He occupies his beat for the purpose of keeping peace, 
enforcing law, protecting the innocent, arresting the 
guilty, and apprehending those who are enemies of 
government, home and peace. A policeman isn’t 
required to walk up to a man who is sneaking around 
alleys, tip his hat to him, and ask him his business. 

I have frequently requested policemen never to 
halt a man at night without pressing their gun against 
the man’s stomach when they spoke to him. Should 
a policeman accost a gentleman and point his gun at 
him he will thank him. A gentleman doesn’t object to 
being stopped: he doesn’t object to telling where he is 
going, where he has been, what his business is. A 
righteous, law-abiding citizen would thank the police¬ 
man for stopping him and asking him his business 
should he be required to walk the streets late at night. 
No one is insulted and no feelings worthy of considera¬ 
tion are offended when a policeman places his gun 
against a man’s breast at midnight and asks him why 
he is prowling the streets. If the man thus accosted 
be a thief or a robber, then the policeman is in position 
to control such a character, and should the thief or 
robber or murderer attempt to attack the policeman, 
then his gun would be properly placed ready for action. 

We have listened to the sentimental, maudlin, 
silly, infamous pacifist too long. In consequence, 
and as a direct result of the teachings of the rationalist, 
the pacifist, and the infernal anarchist, the crime wave 







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has swept the country and is sweeping it, and the peak 
of that wave has not yet been reached. The time has 
come to enforce law without fear or favor. The time 
has come to apprehend the murderer, the thief, the rob¬ 
ber, and the highwayman. And the time has come for 
the policemen to notify such characters that they expect 
to apprehend them. If they desire to submit to law 
and order and the orders of the policemen, it will be 
all the better for them; but if they will not submit, 
then they must take the consequences. 

Fourth —In addition to the active, executive, law- 
enforcing work of a policeman, the public ought to 
recognize him as the indispensable friend of the home, 
the woman and the children. The policeman ought to 
be the source of information. He ought to be able to 
give information to every woman and child, and keep 
the people living within his beat thoroughly informed 
on every question of municipal law. He ought to be 
recognized as the friend of the people. He should know 
all the people on his beat—be able to call the majority 
of them by name. He represents them. He is their 
friend, instructor, protector, and daily and nightly com¬ 
panion. The children ought to be able to go to him 
and literally gather around him and feel comfortable, 
and be made to realize that he is their friend and pro¬ 
tector. The majority of our policemen would enjoy 
that. They have beautiful families of their own— 


lovely children and good, sweet, consecrated Christian 
wives. The very domestic instinct and atmosphere and 
blessings of their own homes would be carried by them 
to the streets and the beats they control. 

Every citizen should greet his policeman heartily 
and make him realize that he is his friend, admirer and 
protector. Policemen are not put on the force to be 
abused and treated in an indifferent or inferior manner. 
They as soldiers have assumed our place, and it is our 
duty to be kind to them, true to them, and to co-operate 
with them in the discharge of their duties. The majority 
of our policemen deserve our praise, respect and absolute 
confidence. Dishonest men get on the force as they get 
into every profession. It is our duty to send such to 
the penitentiary for the protection of the true, the faith¬ 
ful and the honest who walk the beats and protect us 
day and night. We have some of the finest men on 
earth on the police force of our city. Let us be true to 
them and assist the whole force and the whole city gov¬ 
ernment in making this the cleanest, best and greatest 
city on earth. 

Remember, the policemen represent you. They 
are the embodiment of all righteous citizens. They are 
what we make them. We want the best. Let us give 
them our best. 

Behold, your policemen! Be true to them and 
help them. 



Green River Gorge 



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Captains of Seattle Police Department 

Top row, left to right — E. C. Collier, L. J. Stuart. C. E. Dolphin, E. L. Hedges. 
Bottom row —D. F. Willard, J. T. Mason, M. T. Powers, C. G. Bannick. 


T HERE are few engaged in any sort of business who are not somewhat informed regarding sources of in¬ 
formation bearing upon its effectual operation. The Police Captain who passes judgment, at least tem¬ 
porarily, on perhaps hundreds of cases a day, must know how to obtain information in regard to them. 

He cannot put a person on the scales and ascertain that he has so many liters of honesty or so many cubic 
inches of dishonesty. The Police Captain must be a student of character. 

The man who is deficient in honesty will find a dozen ways to beat every possible kind of check upon his 
reliability, but the average Captain has acquired knowledge and skill which will enable him to judge the man and 
to judge him well. 

This ability was not acquired in a day, nor yet a year, but from years of direct contact with all classes of 
people, honest and dishonest, careless and criminal, good and bad alike. 

Police Departments are called upon for all kinds of duty any hour of the day or night and upon the Com¬ 
manding Officer often devolves the responsibility of meeting all situations promptly and squarely. 

To the Captains, therefore, is due a large share of credit for the efficient operation of a Police Department. 




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Lieutenants of Seattle Police Department 

Top row, left to right — G. V. Hasselblad. H. G. O’Brien (now Inspector), R. W. Olmsted, G. M. Comstock. 
Bottom row — C. G. Carr, J. J. Haag, F. A. Ribbach, J. W. Smith. 


T^XPERIENCE teaches us that executive ability and the dynamic power of leadership in any line of endeavor 
' is acquired by or is the direct result of personal application, perseverance and incentive. 

The rank of Lieutenant is only one step from the top of the ladder in police service; and a lieutenant in 
this department is just what the name implies, the right-hand man of the department. A captain in charge of a 
large district must remain in his office and depend to a very great extent upon his right-hand men, or lieutenants, 
for a daily general supervision of the districts, consultation with and instruction of the Sergeants and to furnish 
him with first hand information regarding all police matters within his jurisdiction. Thus it is plain that the 
police lieutenant bears no small portion of the responsibility for maintenance of law and order. 

There are at the present time eight Lieutenants in the Seattle Police Department, and it may be said that 
the work which they have and are doing and the ease and despatch with which it is done deserves the most 
creditable mention. 




Sergeants of Seattle Police Department 

Top row, left to right — L. L. Norton, W. I. Smith, J. J. Crawford, J. Bjarnason, W. E. Carr, I. C. Lee, W. S. White. 
Second row — F. E. Bryant, M. D. Pence, S. A. Hadeen, G. E. Buchanan, C. F. Watson, Eugene Sisler. 

Bottom row — J. H. Thomas, A. J. Wilkes, E. W. Pielow, P. H. Jennings, H. L. Unland, H. T. Kent, L. J. Forbes, F. C. Fuqua. 









































Detective Division 































History of the Seattle Police Department 


The Detective Department 

By R. E. McCullough 



Captain Charles Tennant 

Detective Division 


T HE Detective Department is the nervous system 
of that comprehensive body of vigilant men com¬ 
monly referred to under the term “police.” While 
other branches may supply the bony framework and 
the sinews of the giant of law and order, the central, 
peripheral and sympathetic nerves—the medulla, spinal 
cord and ganglia—whose office it is to control and har¬ 
monize the vital processes and voluntary activities, and 
to bring this organism into relationship with the out¬ 
side world through consciousness of its surroundings, 
to receive and record sensations and to accomplish 
volition, are present in the machinery of the detective 
system. 

By its processes the different branches and func¬ 
tions of the Police Department are co-ordinated, and 
enabled to work in consistency, the efforts of each sup¬ 
plementing the work of the other. Detectives mix 
freely with all classes of the population, have first-hand 
knowledge of the temper and state of the public mind, 
and are first aware of the presence and whereabouts of 
criminals of the specialized types. Not only is this 
contact established locally, but the Detective Depart¬ 


ment is at all times in close touch with the outside 
world through its correspondence with the Police 
Departments of other cities, and by reason of its keep¬ 
ing tab on the movements of the vicious classes, requir¬ 
ing them to “talk,” to “snitch” and to do “stool 
pigeon” duty in order to be allowed the freedom of the 
streets. Through such channels come the most direct 
and dependable information of a police character. The 
lawless classes are admittedly the most mobile elements 
of our unstable, vibratory population, and by observa¬ 
tion of them, gaining familiarity with their mode of 
thought, and acquiring information that passes current 
among them, the detective keeps himself fitted to per¬ 
form the service required at his hand. This criminal 
contact is of vital importance, and the public owe a 
debt of gratitude, and not a flood of criticism, to the 
men who maintain it. The state of development of 
the detective branch of any police department determines 
the efficiency of the processes of law enforcement, just 
as truly as the advancement and specialization of func¬ 
tion of the nervous system in the animal kingdom 
effectually fixes the place of the animal in the scale of 
evolution. 

August 1, 1903, Charles Tennant was appointed 
a detective in the department by Chief of Police John 
Sullivan. Here was set in motion the impulse that led 
up to the present organization of the Detective Depart¬ 
ment. The position of Sergeant of Detectives was cre¬ 
ated by ordinance and Detective Tennant was given the 
appointment, being the first to hold that rank in the 
department. Here was the nucleus and inauguration of 
the Detective Department. The grade of Captain of 
Detectives was later created by ordinance, and Sergeant 
Tennant was advanced to that rank June 1, 1908. 
These promotions and the incidental assignment of 
detectives as the force was increased, mark the rise of 
the Detective Division. 

When Captain Tennant was thus assigned to the 
Detective Department, and it was in its swaddling 
clothes, Seattle had a population of about 125,000, the 
Police Department numbered less than 80 members, 29 
of whom are now dead and 12 are on the retired list; 
C. W. Wappenstein, later Chief of Police, was assigned 
to detective duty under Sergeant Tennant; Justice R. R. 
George, who was later killed in an elevator accident, 
was Police Judge, and Judge John B. Gordon was prac¬ 
ticing law in the New York Block; the Hon. William 
H. Moore, for many years a member of the City Council, 
won by fourteen votes his election for Mayor over 
“Honest John” Riplinger, City Comptroller and ex- 
officio City Clerk, who later took a long vacation in 
Honduras; Judge Mitchell Gilliam was Corporation 
Counsel; the late lamented R. A. Ballinger, later 
Secretary of the Interior under President Taft, was 
practicing law with Judge Ronald; John F. Dore, 



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who defeated the department’s perfectly prepared case 
against the slayer of Ferdinand Hochbrunn, was a 
newspaper reporter; A. M. Mackie was Mayor of Bal¬ 
lard, V. R. Pierson was Mayor of Columbia City, 
George B. Nicoll was Mayor of West Seattle, and 
Georgetown had its own brewery and incidental city 



bertillon files and photos 


government, and, while the city was full of bicycle 
repairers and dealers, the Fred T. Merrill Cycle Com¬ 
pany, on Second Avenue, a couple of doors above Spring 
Street, was the only firm which had yet dared to stock 
up and offer to the purchasing public the new toy, the 
automobile. Time has wrought its changes in twenty 
years. 

Inside the Detective Department the changes have 
been even more marked and significant. The appoint¬ 
ment of Captain Tennant to the command of the 
Detective Bureau created a new division of the depart¬ 
ment. Organization had to be effected, orderly methods 
of procedure adopted, a determination had as to the 
scope of the activities of the detectives, and means 
devised for co-operation with the uniformed men. The 
equipment in these days consisted of a desk, a swivel 
chair, and a time book, with entries of ten names. From 
this humble beginning has been developed the elaborate 
system of obtaining and tracing clues, and of identifica¬ 
tion, that exists today. The files contain over 55,000 
photographs, with Bertillon and fingerprint classifica¬ 
tions, so that should any one of this vast number of 
criminals come to the attention of the department, he 
could at once be confronted with evidence of his criminal 
history, told the number of crimes with which his con¬ 
nection has been established, and prosecutions under the 
habitual criminal provisions of the Code could be 
started. 

But this system was the labor of more than a 
day. When Captain Tennant took charge of the 
Detective Department no effort was being made to retain 
records, or to make identifications. He began by send¬ 
ing prisoners to commercial photographers for the mak¬ 


ing of the records. This mere saving of a photograph 
was the beginning of the elaborate system of records, 
provided with prisoner’s photograph and signature, his 
detailed description, with marks, scars and physical 
characteristics, and the infallible fingerprint, in which 
respect the work of the department is nowhere sur¬ 
passed. After a time the Captain undertook to keep 
fingerprint records, for this purpose making a set of 
prints which, for a time, were forwarded by mail to 
the department at Berkeley, Calif., where the classifica¬ 
tions and identifications were made. But the Captain 
was resolved that the City of Seattle should not remain 
as a ward under the guardianship of the municipality 
of Berkeley, one-sixth its size, for such an imperatively 
necessary part of its police work, and as rapidly as he 
could enlist councilmanic support he built up the Iden¬ 
tification Bureau, a branch of the Detective Department, 
obtaining equipment, now the best obtainable, modern 
and answering every need, and the assignment of four 
men to carry on the work. This bureau now exchanges 
complete records of all prisoners charged with felonies, 
and those possessing vicious tendencies who are held for 
certain misdemeanors, as narcotic addicts, etc., with six¬ 
teen different departments of the Pacific Coast cities and 
of the Middle West, besides filing all records with the 
Federal Identification Bureau, Department of Justice, at 
Leavenworth, Kans., with the Canadian Bureau of 
Identification at Ottawa, Ont., and with the California 
State Bureau of Identification at Sacramento. Thus 
there is brought together and filed in the Identification 



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SAMPLE OF A SET OF FINGER PRINTS 


Bureau of the Seattle Police Department a record of the 
major criminal transactions of the Pacific Coast states 
and large portions of the rest of the country, and there 
is available for use the very valuable means of spotting 
on the streets undesirable persons from other parts of 


























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The Detective Department— (Continued) 


the country. As a matter of figures this Identification 
Bureau has a record of having made 10,000 identifica¬ 
tions through fingerprints. 

The value of this work to the city cannot be over¬ 
estimated. Every consideration that supports the policy 
of making appropriations for police work supports this 
work, and there is no part of our expenditures for 
police purposes from which the public derives more con¬ 
stant or valuable benefit. The department has a most 
enviable record, through the work of, for instance, 
Detectives D. J. McLennan, James Doom, and others, 
of identifying on the street and returning to other cities 
for trial some of the most desperate criminals and high- 
class burglars. This fact is known among the vicious 



fingerprint files, bertillon room. 


elements and accounts in a large measure for the fact 
that Seattle is given a wide berth by the arch burglars 
and yeggmen of the country. 

The spread of present-day doctrines and theories 
of humane treatment of prisoners, and of extending 
executive and judicial clemency, evidenced, for instance, 
by the decrease in the number of executions of murderers 
from eight per cent in 1882 to two per cent in 1900, 
makes necessary increased vigilance on the part of prose¬ 
cuting officers. If the convict is to be lightly punished, 
surely, for the general good, it is desirable that the 
highest possible percentage of offenses be detected and 
punished. It is the too common practice of police judges 
to suspend sentence on condition that the offender leave 
town. 'This contributes to the mobility and shifting 
propensities of the criminal class, and particularly in 
western cities, where possibly ten per cent of the popu¬ 
lation are annually new faces, and the criminal and the 
fugitive mix freely with the transitory elements, the 
means of knowing criminals on inspection becomes of 
vital importance in police work. 

The cunning of the criminal is to avoid detection, 
and it is not the practice of the confirmed criminal on 


his liberation from serving a sentence to go back to the 
scene of his former crime. Close supervision of the 
activities of criminals, and the severe punishments under 
the codes of the several European states, have driven the 
lawless elements in greatly increased numbers to our 
shores, and unless liberal provision is made for the 
carrying of this burden, we are doomed to a still further 
increase of crime. The developments of the last few 
years, particularly the phenomenal increase of our 
wealth, has made the United States a highly attractive 
field for the vicious, and our crime statistics show that 
we are confronted by a national problem. In the coun¬ 
tries of Western Europe the percentage of convictions 
that follow prosecutions has ranged in different years 
and in different countries from 45 per cent to as high 
as 95 per cent, while in the United States the percentage 
has fallen to as low as three, making it evident that the 
work of detection and identification ought to be very 
thoroughly prosecuted here. 

The conditions under which the Captain worked 
at that time are well illustrated by recollection of the 
Judge George Emory murder, July 7th, 1906. There 
is an old picture in the office, showing the youthful 
murderer, Chester Thompson, walking between Cap¬ 
tain Tennant and Detective John L. Barck, as he is 
being taken to a gallery in Third Avenue, near Colum¬ 
bia Street, to be photographed. This prisoner had to 
be held in the County Jail, the City Jail at that time 
being but a sort of staunch birdcage. This was the boy 
who, in an outburst of rage and resentment on account 
of the fact that the Judge was inclined to frown upon 
his attentions to his 16-year-old niece and ward, went 
to his home at the dead of night and shot him in cold 
blood. He then seemed to realize the enormity of his 
crime and, fearing he would be lynched, he took with 
him two of the Judge’s helpless little children as host¬ 
ages, and barricaded himself in a room at the Emory 
home, threatening to kill the children and himself the 
moment interference offered. Detectives Lee Barbee and 
Charles Phillips were detailed, and after a couple of 
hours he was induced by a ruse to come out. The sensa¬ 
tional nature of the shooting, the prominence of the 
families involved, the long-drawn legal battle that fol¬ 
lowed the filing of the first degree murder charge, and 
the touching defense made by the father, himself held in 
the highest esteem by his fellow citizens of the city, 
make this one of the most memorable episodes in the 
criminal history of Seattle. The keenest grief over the 
tragic death of the victim of this assassin was expressed 
by those in every walk in life. In all the history of 
the state there is no record of a tragedy which has 
caused such universal sorrow. Although only 37 years 
of age at the time of his death, the victim had sat upon 
the Superior bench of the state, and was widely known 
for his integrity and eloquence. The handling of the 
case was also a triumph for the department, for it had 
promised to be a quadruple tragedy, and its later history 








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The Detective Department— (Continued) 


shows that it probably would have been, but for proper 
handling. 

Being selected to take charge of the Detective 
Division, the Captain was off to a good start. He had 
tact, was a keen student of detective method and routine, 
possessed Scotch tenacity and industry, stamina and an 
uncanny sense of what would win and what was doomed 
to defeat. He had with him ten men: C. W. Wappen- 
stein, L. A. Barbee, Frank Kennedy, James Byrne, 
Charles Phillips, H. C. Adams, S. G. Corbett, M. R. 
Hubbard, M. M. Freeman, Gil Philbrick, all of whom 
are living, three of them being still in service—James 
Byrne, Charles Phillips and M. M. Freeman—the others 
retired. Every one of these men have played a notable 
part in the criminal history of Seattle. Name any sen¬ 
sational and widely discussed criminal trial or case fall¬ 
ing within these twenty years, and one or more of 
these men will be found to have been instrumental in 
the solution, to know intimately the details, and to be 
able to discuss the incidents from recollection merely. 
His has been the opportunity to evolve and carry out 
a consistent policy through a considerable period of 
time. The great reproach of American police systems, 
and the fundamental weakness, is want of continuity of 
policy—in short, politics. 

Obviously, any system, and especially a police 
system, derives a great part of its virtue from the ability 
to carry on a policy over a considerable period of time: 
frequent and kaleidoscopic changes tend invariably to 
disorganization and ineffectiveness. Of the unfortunate 
influence of “politics” on police administration, little 
need be said: not because the effects are negligible, but 
because they are too familiar in every city to require 
elaboration. The police system of Paris has had but 
one fundamental change since the days of the first 
Napoleon, and the London system—Scotland Yard— 
has had none. Another great element in the difficulty 
in policing American cities lies in the heterogeneity of 
the population. It is not so much that our native born 
population have set for themselves a higher standard of 
moral and civic conduct, for to their shame be it said 
that there is but little difference when the averages are 
consulted, but in the mixing of populations a higher 
percentage of crime results than would be the case if the 
mingled elements were unscrambled, and living segre¬ 
gated in districts inhabited by unmixed populations. 
There is in Americans a curious mixture of violence and 
tenderness, which makes them quick to commit an 
offense, and which at the same time induces the public 
to take a lenient and indulgent attitude toward the 
criminal, and to view him with a certain tolerance, and 
even to indulge in maudlin sentiment toward the per¬ 
petrators of revolting crimes. Witness the recently 
announced determination of Louis Sonny, the officer 
who captured Roy Gardiner, after having turned over 
to Mrs. Gardiner the reward he received for the appre¬ 
hension of this dangerous criminal, to journey to the 


White House, possibly with a dove perched on his left 
shoulder, while he carries a banner emblazoned with a 
pair of scales, as a crusader for a pardon for this brag¬ 
gart. Our large floating population, drifting from city 
to city, without attachment to any spot, parasitic, pre¬ 
datory, considering themselves strangers wherever they 
be, not feeling the restraints which affect citizens in 
fixed abodes, portions of them meaning to move on to 
other cities as soon as placed under surveillance or police 
pressure, makes the work of the detectives unremitting 
toil. 

The period of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposi¬ 
tion, which marks the high tide of Seattle’s achievement 
in advertising herself as the city of the Northwest, saw 
congregate in the city and its environs a very large 



Police Headquarters Building 


number of the desperately criminal class, including high- 
class burglars, pickpockets, confidence men, swindlers 
and yeggs. The criminal history of the city will show 
that its sensations of earlier date involve more generally 
names known locally, as witness the Chester Thompson 
case just cited, but the period of the A.-Y.-P. Expo¬ 
sition, when the city was flooded with the “stranger 
within our gates,” crime after crime was committed 
by men, the tracing of whose records quickly showed 
that they had recently come from other cities of the 
East. Such a one was Peter Miller. 

On Thanksgiving night, November 26th, 1908, 
Hugh McMahon left his place of business, never to be 
seen again alive, and the body was found in the early 
morning in a boarding house yard on East Aloha Street, 
his Great Dane dog, being the first to find him, standing 
watch. The body had been dragged through a barbed 




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The Detective Department— (Continued) 


wire fence, as shown by torn places in the clothing 
making it evident that more than one person was con¬ 
cerned in the death. Two valuable rings, entrusted to 
McMahon for safekeeping, had been stripped from the 
fingers, and a watch, the property of Tom Desmond, 
was also missing. Detective Lee Barbee took up the 
clues that presented themselves, and arranged for close 
watch to be kept of every pawnsheet sent to the police 
stations of the cities of the Coast. On February 1st, 
1909 word was received from the Spokane Department 
that a diamond ring and a watch which had been 
pawned there might be the ones taken from McMahon 
on the night of the murder. They were so identified 
and the signature of the man who pawned the ring 
and watch was photographed for the use of the Seattle 
detectives. 

For a long period of time countless house burg¬ 
laries had been occurring, perpetrated by experienced 
men. Only better class residences were entered, thor¬ 
oughly ransacked, the loot selected with care and evi¬ 
dent knowledge of value, and the entrance and exit were 
always made expeditiously and without noise. Every 
detective who could be spared for such work was 
detailed to patrol the residence districts, automobiles 
being used in the afternoon and evening. July 1st, Roy 
Williams, a beardless youth, was taken into custody, 
having been observed standing about the corner at 16th 
Avenue and Madison Street for several hours. He first 
stated he was waiting for his uncle, and later that he 
was waiting for his sweetheart, but would give no 
names or addresses. He was held for investigation, but 
was released without any charge having been completed 
against him. It was evident that if he was implicated 
in these burglaries, there was an older head directing 
him, and a detective was detailed to shadow him, but 
he managed to disappear in the crowds collected on 
Second Avenue, due to a parade. 

On July 22nd, 1909, Detective Ed C. Griffith 
started to work from his home in the Volunteer Park 
district and, due to the lookout that was being kept in 
the residence districts, decided to walk and keep his 
eyes open. Not far from the park, on 14th Avenue 
North, he spied the young man, Roy Williams, and 
with him a much older and heavier man. He started in 
their direction, and the young man recognized him, and 
whispered to his companion. By this time Griffith 
was approaching them and, calling upon them to throw 
up their hands, he handcuffed them together. They 
were brought to the station, and the older man was 
booked under the name Peter Miller. It was later 
learned that he had many aliases—Bob Bremer, Charles 
Elliott, James Marsden, Henry Allison, James Har- 
mond, being only a few of them. 

The younger man first confessed, and took Cap¬ 
tain Tennant and Detective Griffith to the room he and 
the other man had occupied as a living room, bedroom 
and kitchen, at 1706 Terry Avenue. There were found 


nitro-glycerine, fragments from many recent prowls, 
and, far more important, was a pawnticket, with the 
handwriting of Peter Miller on it, and a memorandum 
book, with the names and addresses of victims written 
in cipher, also in Miller’s handwriting. Mere glances 
at the pawnticket, at the memorandum book and the 
handwriting on the Spokane pawnbroker’s register, 
showed Captain Tennant that the same man had writ¬ 
ten them all. 

Confronted with these facts the older man, Peter 
Miller, also confessed, and boastfully claimed many 
burglaries as his which had not been attributed to him. 
He delighted in relating his achievements as a house 
prowler, and his success in plying his trade and for so 
long a time mystifying the police. He told with a swag¬ 
ger of jumping from an upstairs window with jewelry 
stolen from the place in his pockets, and landing almost 
in the arms of an officer, and making the officer believe 
that he was the owner of the premises, pursuing the 
fleeing burglar. 

Miller, instead of being charged with the murder 
of Hugh McMahon, strong as the evidence was, was 
placed on trial on a second degree burglary charge, and 
a conviction obtained. Miller had in the meantime 
proved himself to be a man of keen intelligence and 
great alertness of mind, a student in different languages, 
having a smattering of both law and medicine, and pos¬ 
sessed of a certain oratorical gift—a man who, had he 
devoted his energies to legitimate pursuits, might have 
made his mark in life. He conducted his own defense, 
the adroitness of which gave rise to many tense situa¬ 
tions and was much featured in the newspapers. 

After this conviction he gave out the following 
interview: 

“I was born at Germantown, Pa., thirty years ago. 
My father was a lawyer, banker, student and traveler. 
He had amassed about three-quarters of a million dol¬ 
lars. My mother, although an invalid, possesed the 
most remarkable mind I ever knew. The peculiarities 
of my nature, the psychic force which impels me to be 
a speaker, which moves the words to burst forth almost 
without effort, I inherit from her. She was a thinker, 
a dreamer, an idealist, and yet a student of the actualities 
of the world. When I was only three years old she 
went for her health to the Mediterranean, and there I 
spent my boyhood, first at San Remo, in the Riviera, 
then at Corsica, Pelermo and Cairo by turns, my mother 
always in search of health. 

I did not go to school, but you will know what a 
strange power of mind my mother bestowed on me 
when I tell you that I could read and write and speak 
three languages when I was six years old. I was imbued 
with the love of study. All my life I have followed 
the Scriptural message: ‘Ye shall know the truth, and 
the truth shall make you free.’ 

Now, you will see how ridiculous it is to state that 


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I am at heart a criminal. How could one with such a 
beginning fall into crime? 

“My mother died when I was fifteen. I went to 
the University of Berlin and studied medicine for two 
years. I had plenty of money to pursue my studies. 
Under Rudolph Virchow I studied pathology and com¬ 
parative anatomy. Other men of his kind taught me 
surgery and physics. Finally I left Berlin because I 
could obtain better laboratory facilities and instruction 
in high chemistry at the University of Paris. I was 
there one semester, but the nomadic spirit of my father 
was in me, calling for travel and change. I went to the 
University of Turin and learned psychology from the 
masters of the science. 

“And I read, read, read—read everything that men 
have written in many languages, it seems to me. But 
always I have found one idea more strongly impressed 
on me than any other—the inhumanity of the world 
to those who are poor. 

“I came to the United States and was induced to 
invest my fortune in mining property near Valencia, 
Mexico. This was after I had spent some months at 
Bellevue Hospital, New York, as interne. I went to 
Mexico myself as superintendent of our property, but I 
never was a business man. My partners wanted me to 
be a slave driver. I thought more of the poor peons 
than I did of my partners. As the mines were a failure, 
I left them in my partners’ hands. I lost all I had, but 
it was a small thing to me. I have always been able to 
earn a living as a lecturer. I did not care for money 
to which I had no right. Why should I be rich among 
such poverty? I could never be happy amid suffering. 

“So I have devoted my life to the poor. The power 
of oratory is a gift. I have never cultivated it. But, 
for example, during the Haywood-Pettibone affair in 
Idaho I raised thousands of dollars for the cause by 
street speaking. I have never been arrested except 
for blockading the streets with the thousands who 
have listened to my words. My whole doctrine is one 
of love? Why should I resort to crime? I have opposed 
the advocates of force.”—The Times, November 3rd, 
1909, after the first conviction. 

Following the conviction he obtained counsel and 
perfected an appeal to the Supreme Court. There was 
a great mass of evidence and possible charges against 
Miller, and the state was able, time after time, to file 
and prosecute charges based upon the breaking and enter¬ 
ing into and stealing from, some other home. In the 
newspaper interview quoted Miller refers to his activity 
in raising funds for the Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone 
defense, and it is surmised that from some such source, 
as a service in return, money was supplied to him in the 
legal battle thus precipitated, continuing, as it did, over 
a period of five years, the matter in one phase or another 
was before the Supreme Court of the state seven times. 
Changes of venue were taken by the defense, and four 
of the appeals were taken from convictions or court 


orders in King County, and three from Pierce County. 
It so happened that he was never tried before a jury 
that believed him, or failed to convict, but the Supreme 
Court saved him from commitment to the State Peni¬ 
tentiary for this long period, largely upon the ground 
that the admission of certain confessions was erroneous. 
Finally Miller was brought to trial in King County, 
and the case was given to the jury by the state without 
the confessions having been introduced, and yet appeal 
was taken from the conviction that followed. In the 
meantime, the Court had somewhat revised its holding 
as to the admissibility of the confession of an accomp¬ 
lice, in the following language: 

“In the former case we were inclined to hold that 
his testimony was inadmissible * * * we now hold it 
was not error to submit the testimony of the accomp¬ 
lice Taylor to the jury under proper instructions to con¬ 
sider the manner in which it was procured, and with 
further caution as to the testimony of an accomplice as 
bearing upon its credibility.”—68 Wash. 246. 

Surely the part played in this prosecution by Cap¬ 
tain Tennant and, in fact, the Detective Department, is 
a matter of congratulation to all concerned. The con¬ 
duct of this matter marked the Captain as a man not 
easily swerved from his purpose. He saw conviction 
after conviction set aside: saw the admission of a con¬ 
fession held to be error, although there was present at 
the time it was made the Prosecuting Attorneys of three 
counties—King, Pierce and Spokane—and these all 
present in Court to testify as to the manner in which it 
was taken; saw a defendant apparently supplied with 
ample funds to continue his defense indefinitely, and 
saw the newspapers, as usual, much inclined to cultivate 
a public sympathy for a defendant who had served 
penitentiary commitments before, had broken jail, had 
twice escaped the custody of officers, and was at the 
time under indictment for assault with intent to kill—- 
all of which had occurred in other cities before this de¬ 
fendant set upon his career in Seattle. The successful 
conclusion of this prosecution is justly a matter of pride, 
not alone to Captain Tennant, but to every detective 
or officer who had to do with it, to the legal depart¬ 
ments of King and Pierce Counties who secured the 
convictions—especially Deputy Prosecuting Attorney 
Everett Ellis—and to the City of Seattle, which has 
profited by the public service so rendered. 

The period following the war brought its train of 
characteristic evils, like the spray from a receding tidal 
wave. Unemployment, penniless soldiers returning to 
their old walks in life and mingling with former asso¬ 
ciates now become affluent through surpassing profits, 
dissensions and discontent coming on like a rude awak¬ 
ening from a dream of a better day, the idleness of men 
accustomed to the use of weapons, and for the police 
those acts of violence committed by men who had 
learned to value life in terms of zero and property in 
no terms at all. 


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One such act was that, memorable only for its 
hatefulness, by which one John Smith brought upon 
himself the attention of the department and of the city 
and state, from January 21st 1921, to January 27th, 
on which date he was found guilty of first degree mur¬ 
der by a jury, this being the closing chapter of his 
career. 

John Smith was of German descent, and was 
nettled by the measures taken by the government during 
the war. He offered himself as a recruit at Camp Lewis 
but was rejected. He turned to burglary, by his own 
confession, and supported himself thereafter by law¬ 
lessness and banditry. He had a career of crime in Spo¬ 
kane, later in Tacoma, and then came to Seattle. On 
the night of January 21st, 1921, he was abroad in the 
residence district, armed with a Remington and a Colt 
automatic, and had on his person 75 rounds of ammu¬ 
nition. At about 9:45 p. m. he was walking boldly 
on Broadway and saw two patrolmen, Neil McMillan 
and W. T. Angle, making their rounds and trying 
doors, but he continued on his way, taking not one 
step to avoid them. Upon the approach of Smith 
Officer Angle remarked to McMillan: '‘Guess I’ll shake 
this fellow down.” McMillan replied: “Oh, he looks 
like a working fellow,” and turned to try a door. He 
then heard two shots, and turned to see Angle fall 
under the fire of the bandit. He pulled his own gun, 
and although he fired two shots the bandit escaped 
unscathed, and he had met the same fate as Officer 
Angle. 

The bandit turned to the east of Broadway and 
was seen to disappear into an alley. Coming out on the 
street, he saw a resident standing in his doorway. Smith 
discharged his automatic in the direction of this door, 
telling the man with an oath to get back inside. Here 
the stalking figure was lost to sight. From the scene of 
the shooting he had been seen to go in an easterly direc¬ 
tion, and the shot fired at the man in the doorway was 
east of Broadway, and when he felt himself out of sight 
of the witnesses to the murders just committed, he 
resolved not to be found in the direction in which he 
had been seen to move. He therefore cautiously crossed 
Broadway, and in about thirty-five minutes found him¬ 
self in the down-town district. Here he mixed with the 
street throngs, unnoticed and unsuspected. Word had, 
however, reached headquarters and had been passed out 
to detectives and patrolmen to look out for a stockily 
built man, a mackinaw tinged with red, and a light cap. 
Having received this description, Detectives T. G. Mont¬ 
gomery and James O’Brien, having between them a 
civilian with whom they were talking, were walking 
north on Second Avenue at Cherry Street. As they were 
passing the Hoge Building they found themselves in the 
pathway of a stockily built man, a mackinaw tinged 
with red, and a light cap—the stalking figure. O'Brien, 
reaching behind Carmen, the civilian between them, 
tapped Montgomery on the arm and said: “The very 


man—” stepping at the instant toward the curb, as the 
stranger was walking closer to the curb than they. 
Montgomery began to explain: "We are officers—” and 
saw a flash of the desperado’s gun, and saw O’Brien reel 
under the fire. He pulled his own gun and, as the dis¬ 
charges followed one another, he saw the bandit fall, 
rising first to his tiptoes as the Police Positive found its 
mark, and then crumpling up on the sidewalk. 

The bandit had been put 
down for the count, but not 
until after bullets had cut 
through Montgomery’s 
clothing in six places, and 
the civilian who had been 
walking between himself and 
Detective O'Brien had also 
been wounded by the bandit. 
He turned to give assistance 
to O’Brien, whose gun had 
twitched out of his hand, 
and on whose face there was 
a smile or a grimace of pain. 
“Are you hard hit, Jimmie?” 
asked Montgomery. "No, I think not, but oh, my poor 
children.” At this the bandit was seen to roll over from 
a position lying on his back, as though attempting to 
rise, and Montgomery went to him and stopped him by 
overpowering him. 

On the person of the bandit was found a book of 
instructions for target pistol shooting. Having learned 
the art, and confessedly proud of his expertness, he ap¬ 
parently longed to employ it on human targets. There 
can be no other conclusion because, although these guns 
had both been stolen by him in recent burglaries, and 
he had committed a long line of acts of banditry—his 
own explanation being that he could not afford to be 
taken—the fact remains that he could doubtless have 
avoided meeting the two officers in uniform, at a place 
where the street was amply lighted. Here were three 
members of the Seattle Police Department, none of them 
over 36 years of age, slain within the space of one hour, 
by a man who, although he was passing unmolested 
among the general public, was an enemy to his kind. 

Let the business of the world for a moment cease, 
and all thought be turned to Justice for men among 
their fellows who have paid the last extreme exaction 
of the public service in which they are engaged. James 
O'Brien stood on a firing line that has never known an 
armistice. His was a deed of valor as high as any the 
storied past can hold, and shall the heedless public, with 
niggard sophistry spurn the broken home and turn deaf 
ear to the unanswered cry of little children calling for 
"Daddy” in the night? Widowed hearts and children’s 
hands outstretched attest that they have paid the price, 
and the public passes on in ungrateful security, too often 
scorning and belittling the hand upraised in the interest 
of law, order and peace. 







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The Detective Department— (Continued) 


In the case of the death on duty of Officers Angle 
and McMillan, and of Detective Jimmie O'Brien, the 
latter of whom left a family of four children all under 
the age of eight years, and Officer Stevens’ family, he 
having been killed by a bandit but a few days previously, 
the public of Seattle answered nobly to the need of the 
bereaved ones, and raised an ample fund and demanded 
speedy punishment for John Smith, the bandit, and he 
was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang six days after 
the murders. 

Scarcely had the last reverberations of the John 
Smith trial, and the echoes of the springing of the trap 
for his execution, died away, when another murder 
horror struck the quiet of the city, and the stage was 
again set for the infliction of the death penalty. Thus 
two executions were made of persons sentenced from 


man he then took his money, $405, and came to 
Seattle. The man who had been so heartlessly beaten 
regained his health, however, and, coming to Seattle, 
on the streets one day he saw and recognized Mahoney 
as his assailant and called an officer to take him into 
custody. He was arrested and turned over to the Spo¬ 
kane Police Department for trial. Being convicted, he 
was sentenced to serve from five to eight years in the 
State Penitentiary. Politics here interposed themselves, 
and friends in Seattle obtained Mahoney’s parole before 
he had served two years of his sentence. He returned to 
Seattle, and inside of sixty days he married a woman 
more than thirty years his senior, she being reputed to 
have property in excess of $100,000 in value, his design 
being to possess himself of her wealth, or at least to 
share it. Mrs. Mooers had had the management of her 



Detectives M 


J. Cleary, M. J. McNamee, H. M. Barton, C. L. Toms and W. A. Fuller, and Patrolman R. B. Colby, diving in Lake Union in search of 
the body of Mrs. Kate Mooers-Mahoney. Officer Colby is shown having the diving suit adjusted to make descent. 


King County within the period of eight months, 
although previously it had been fifteen years since the 
last execution. This new murder orgy further brought 
out one of the known characteristics of Captain Ten¬ 
nant—his tenacity of purpose, his persistence in the pur¬ 
suit of his objective in the face of criticism, scurrility and 
abuse. 

James A. Mahoney, a large, ungainly but suave 
individual, had never learned any legitimate means of 
making a living. Having been brought up in the 
atmosphere of the saloon and worthless companionship, 
he never took kindly to any kind of toil. In the pursuit 
of some of the means employed by him to obtain other 
men’s money, he unmercifully beat a man in Spokane, 
after giving him chloral, left him for dead, and tried 
to arrange the body to make it appear that he had com¬ 
mitted suicide. From the pockets of the unconscious 


property for years, and rather enjoyed it herself, and 
Mahoney quickly found that his marriage had not 
accomplished for him just what he had hoped. He 
brooded over this state of affairs and had conferences 
with his sister, Dolores Johnson, who was herself later 
charged, tried and convicted of complicity with him in a 
bold attempt to possess themselves of the property of 
the widow he had married, and she is now serving a 
five-year sentence for her part in the crime. 

Mahoney bought thirty feet of rope and five 
pounds of lime, which he secreted about their apart¬ 
ment at 409 Denny Way. He persuaded Mrs. Mahoney 
that at her age she deserved a rest, and that she owed 
it to a sister in New York, whom she had not seen 
since her girlhood days, to drop her cares and pay a 
long-deferred visit to eastern cities and relatives. Kate 
Mooers-Mahoney fell in with the idea, helped him to 





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plan the details, and said good-bye to her friends April 
16th to take the train—and was never seen again alive. 
On that afternoon she was seen to be wearing a large 
quantity of very valuable jewelry, and although it had 
been announced they would take the train that evening, 
screams and groans were heard from the apartment 
at that evening. But both disappeared, and in about ten 
days Mahoney re-appeared, stating that he had been 
with Mrs. Mahoney as far as St. Paul, and had sent 
her on from there to New York and Cuba, and had 
returned to take care of the property. In this he was 
assisted willingly by his sister and mother, who, 
bedecked with Mrs. Mahoney’s jewelry, drove with 
him in Mrs. Mahoney’s limousine to call upon families 
who had known them in their poverty years before, 
at Snohomish and Bellingham and in Seattle. 

But Mahoney was regarded as a dangerous man, 
and was under the observation of the Seattle detectives 
from the moment of his release on parole. The sudden 
disappearance of the woman he had married, who was 
much more passionately fond of her property than 
she was of her husband, the vulgar display of her 
jewelry, the egregious stories told concerning her where¬ 
abouts, rumors from Mahoney’s first wife to the effect 
that his marriage with Mrs. Moers was bigamous and 
the relations said to have been sustained by him with 
his reputed sister, all left no doubt of the fate of Mrs. 
Mooers. Investigation showed that a trunk had been 
removed from the apartment on the evening the couple 
were to have started east, and the disposition of the 
trunk was the key to the case. Captain Tennant spent 
two days in personal investigation, in which he was 
assisted by Detectives Chad Ballard, J. F. Majewski, 
C. L. Toms, H. M. Barton, M. J. McNamee, W. A. 
Fuller, M. J. Cleary and D. M. Blaine, and his con¬ 
clusions led to the undertaking that astounded the entire 
city, this venture in crime solution being nothing less 
than the attempt to recover from the bottom of Lake 
Union, a body of water fifty feet deep, and its extreme 
measurement north and south, and east and west, being 
a mile and a half each way, there being in places ten 
to fourteen feet of mud at the bottom, the trunk con¬ 
taining the corpus delicti in the case. This effort was 
looked upon with disapproval, and even the Captain’s 
confidential friends feared he was staking his reputation 
as a prudent officer on a mere hazard, with the chances 
strongly against success. But the Captain had taken his 
resolution. He detailed in addition to the detectives 
mentioned above, Detectives G. W. Humphrey, S. 
Simundson, J. Bianchi, J. D. Landis and O. I. Van Bus- 
kirk, and week after week, through May, June and 
July, continued the baffling search. The public was 
becoming restive under the idea that here was a wanton 
waste of public money, and the newspapers were begin¬ 
ning to show a disposition to make a jest of the attempt. 
The Prefect of Police of Paris, nor Scotland Yard, ever 
undertook a more ambitious venture. The prospect was 


one before which a man of ordinary endowments would 
have quelled. But, where the body was was the place 
to seek it. Being left no doubt as to the place to look, 
the Captain did not shirk the responsibility. During 
all this time he was in close conference with Prosecuting 
Attorney Malcolm Douglas and Deputy Prosecuting 
Attorney T. M. Patterson, and as criticism turned to 
scorn, their support was of great value to him. On 
August 8th the submarine sled used in the operations 
cut loose a trunk from its moorings, and it floated to the 
surface. On being opened there was taken from it first 
a woman’s plush coat, and then a small rug, stained 
with blood. Next came a bloody mandarin coat, and a 
pink and white striped house dress, then a blue bath 
robe and a quantity of woman’s underwear. Lastly, 
the nude body of Kate Mooers-Mahoney. The head 
and face had been packed in lime, which in slaking in 
the water had parboiled and rendered the features 
unrecognizable, but identification was made by dental 
work, proof of ownership of the articles of clothing, 
etc. The triumph was of the same proportions as the 
undertaking. 

December 21st, 1921, the body of Ferdinand 
Hochbrunn, a familiar figure on the streets of Seattle 
since its infancy, was found in his apartment at 2520 
Fifth Avenue, shot in the back of the head, and in an 
advanced stage of decomposition, the glass eye having 
fallen out of the skull. He had been supposed to be 
in California, several letters having been received from 
California cities, either signed by him or having his 
signature cleverly forged. Investigation showed that 
the apartment had been plundered, and his ward and 
housekeeper was known to have gone to California, 
after having deposited, October 15th, a large quantity 
of money, all in $20 gold pieces, for transmission to 
Chicago and points in Michigan. The state charged 
the ward with this offense, and from the circumstance 
of the money remitted on October 15th, it undertook to 
prove that the crime was committed on the evening of 
October 14th. The evidence was purely circumstantial, 
and although it was voluminous, and had to be col¬ 
lected from four states—Washington, California, Ore¬ 
gon and Michigan—it left no possible hypothesis other 
than the certain guilt of the accused. The investigation, 
however, emphasized the frailty of the human mind in 
matters of evidence, persons having been found who 
believed that they saw and talked with Hochbrunn in 
December, and it was clearly seen, despite the indis¬ 
putable nature of the showing the department could 
make, that aside from a confession, when the fugitive 
was finally located, the public mind would never be 
cleared as to the matter of who did the actual shooting. 
In September, 1922, nearly a year after the shooting, 
the fugitive ward was located in Oakland, and it occa¬ 
sioned no surprise that she denied all knowledge of the 
killing in connection with which she was wanted. As 
soon as she was in custody Lieutenant of Detectives 


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William B. Kent took the train for Oakland, not await¬ 
ing extradition papers. Within an hour and a half 
of the time Lieutenant Kent took the matter of this 
killing up with Clara Skarin in the City Jail at Oak¬ 
land, he had a complete confession of the act of shoot¬ 
ing. This accomplishment on his part required a ready 
command of all the elements of proof involved in the 
records obtained from four different states, an intimate 
knowledge of human nature, and a personality which 
dominates in conversations with those who have any¬ 
thing to hide. The Lieutenant has been Acting Night 
Captain of Detectives for many years, during which 
time he has “shaken down” thousands of prisoners 
of all types, having talked to them nightly for all this 
period, and has an intuitive sense of whether what the 
prisoner is saying is actually what he is thinking. He 
has the rare quality of insight into crime. He is dis¬ 
criminating and aggressive, and as a superior officer 
exacting. He is highly successful in crime investigation, 
and in involved cases great reliance is placed in his judg¬ 
ment by the Prosecuting Attorney's office. 

“Jim the Penman,” one of the most successful and 
notorious of all forgers, flashed across the Seattle police 
sky like a meteor in 1916. He is very shrewd in his 
work, and the ruse adopted in Seattle was to write 
to local architects from Butte, saying he was about to 
undertake the erection of a residence in Seattle, and, due 
to business engagements, he would be compelled to be 
absent during the work of construction. He therefore 
desired to put the work in the hands of a responsible 
firm, and desired an early reply, quoting fees, and con¬ 
taining a reference to the architect’s bank. He thus 
obtained the signatures of local business men, and on 
his arriving in Seattle a couple of days later he knew 
the banks with which they carried accounts. He works 
a town industriously for a day or two, and as expedi¬ 
tiously leaves it. His usual method is to give checks to 
the woman who works with him, to be cashed. This 
woman has thus become known under dozens of aliases, 
having used in this city “Mary Farrell." 

When it became apparent that this city had had a 
visit with R. E. Pope, otherwise “Jim the Penman,” 
and his accomplice, and that Seattle banks and business 
men were the losers by a large sum of money. Lieutenant 
William E. Justus took up the matter of locating these 
persons and serving the forgery warrants that were 
issued for P. J. Langford, alias R. E. Pope, alias C. E. 
Reede, and Mary Farrell, alias Agnes Porter, alias Mil¬ 
dred Snyder, etc., etc. A three-year search was prose¬ 
cuted, it being necessary at all times to proceed with 
caution, the man having written the checks and the 
woman having passed them, it was necessary to locate 
both, and after the arrest of one it would be useless to 
look for the other. After this long search they were 
both located and arrested in Memphis and held for this 
department. This case illustrates one of the amazing 
crochets of the law, in the admission of prisoners to bail 


in an extradition case. After the State of Washington 
had been put to an expense of between $400 and $500, 
the prisoners were released on bail, and the long search 
ended fruitlessly, the privilege of bail meaning to them 
but the opportunity to escape. Lieutenant Justus saw 
service in the Portland department, where he has a host 
of firm friends, but felt the lure of Puget Sound and 
recognized the larger opportunity for service afforded, 
and came to Seattle and identified himself with the 
department in 1910. He is a fingerprint and identifica¬ 
tion expert, and is genial, consistent and just—an ideal 
and very popular superior officer. His connection with 
the Detective Department has been a period of good will 
among the members of it, he being able to restore har¬ 
mony in all situations. His ever-ready humor relieves 
every tense situation, and his presence and personality 
lend a flavor that amounts to a charm to the service. 

It is in the line of good policing to look not only 
for fugitives from this city who commit a crime and 
hide themselves elsewhere, but to keep the city rid of 
desperate characters by picking up criminals wanted by 
other cities. Detectives D. J. McLennan and James 
Doom have done particularly remarkable work in this 
line, having picked up here such arch criminals as Tom 
Kelly, wanted in Los Angeles for the murder of a police 
officer; George Gatto, alias Spingola, alias “The 
Mouse,” Standard Oil sticker-up, and J. C. Ford, for 
New York City, all of whom were old in the practice 
of their criminal bent, having previous records, and 
were identified on the street from a photograph. 

A particularly clever “pinch” was that made by 
Detectives C. J. Waechter and P. Christiansen, of 
Charles Miller, alias Billy Edward Delmas, who had 
served fourteen years of his life in penitentiaries, includ¬ 
ing Folsom and San Quentin, and who had been a very 
active hotel prowler in this city for some weeks. He 
patronized only the better hotels, at which he was him¬ 
self a guest, and in the “wee sma’ ” hours would go 
about the halls, softly trying the doors, entering only 
those carelessly left unlocked. In event he found he 
had disturbed anyone he politely apologized, saying he 
was looking for his own room. By painstaking ex¬ 
amination of the registers at the hotels about the time 
burglaries were reported, the detectives hit upon a no¬ 
ticeable script, clearly the same at a dozen different 
hotels, although the name used was not twice alike. 
Watch continued until this script again appeared on the 
register at the Washington Hotel, December 14th, 1922, 
under the name of Charles Miller. Then arrangements 
were made to watch the occupant of the room to which 
Charles Miller was assigned, and the vigil lasted for 43 
hours. The man was then seen to emerge at 3:10 A. 
M., very quietly from his room, and try various doors 
along the hall. He was seen to enter a room, and after 
about 25 minutes to come out. He was taken into 
custody. He was in his pajamas, and the amount of 
money he had in his possession, it was found, on con- 


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suiting the occupant of the room he had surreptitiously 
entered, corresponded exactly with the amount that had 
been taken from the room. Upon consulting the rec¬ 
ords at Headquarters, it was found that this man had 
been photographed for police purposes a number of 
times, and when confronted with the record he made a 
complete confession. 

A very dangerous robber was arrested by Detective 
Thomas Hayden, in 1920, following a number of day¬ 
light hold-ups in business houses in which the stick-up 
man would boldly enter the place and ask to see some 
article of merchandise. In three different drug stores 
in which he committed robberies he asked for peroxide, 
leading to his being termed “The Peroxide Kid.’’ When 
the purchase was completed, and the clerk would step to 
the cash register to ring up the sale and make change, 
the hold-up would step up close to him, and holding 
a gun under his coat but in sight of the now terrified 
clerk, would caution him to make no outcry, and help 
himself to the money in the till. He was so very handy 
with his gun that, when placed under arrest by De¬ 
tective Hayden he reached for it, although the Detective 
had him covered with his own revolver, and was stand¬ 
ing so close that a shot would probably have meant 
instant death. Instead, Mr. Hayden reached his hand 
and seized the robber’s pistol, gripping it so that the 
hammer would not work, and then wrenched it away 
from him. He was charged with robbery under the 
name of William F. Reuther, alias W. L. Brown, and 
given a sentence of five to twenty years in the Wash¬ 
ington State Penitentiary. 

In 1921 Paymaster Harrison, of the American Port¬ 
able House Company, was stuck-up at the factory, 9th 
Avenue South and Alaska Street, just as he was enter¬ 
ing the place with the weekly payroll, close to $1000.00 
in cash. He was bound, gagged, placed in an auto¬ 
mobile, and carried to 7th Avenue and Madison Street, 
and there given a shove from the car, which sped on, 
taking the coin sack. The clues in this case were sed¬ 
ulously worked, and led to the arrest of Fred Hawkins, 
who had been sentenced to serve from five to fifteen 
years in the Washington State Penitentiary, for robbery, 
in 1915, and had served accordingly. He was identified 
as one of the hold-ups, and further information caused 
the arrest of George Spencer, Washington State Peni¬ 
tentiary No. 8502, Harry Trowsell and Fred Scott, and 
information was then obtained connecting with this 
hold-up Harry Kendall, who sprang out of a window 
and staged a foot race in an attempt to escape. 

It happened, however, that the Detectives working 
this case were none other than Jack Williams and Ross 
Watson. Now, Watson is an athlete, and does the 220- 
yard dash in twenty-one and a fifth, and says he never 
did run his best. Kendall was outclassed from the start 
at his own game. Seeing the pursuer closing in on him, 
he changed his course to the direction of Lake Union, 
and although it was February, plunged in. He was 


rescued from the icy water, and given instead, a life 
sentence in the State Penitentiary. With these fellows 
had been George Gray, Patty Sullivan, etc., who were 
also picked up. This gang had been terrorizing the 
north end of the city for some time. 

Detective R. R. Herbert has made an enviable record 
on the bogus check detail. During the five years he has 
been so assigned he has handled personally, or had to 
do with, cases leading to 28 convictions for grand lar¬ 
ceny, 35 for forgery, 15 for shoplifting, 30 for petit 
larceny, five for robbery, six for safe burglaries, and 
three for burglary. He it was who, on investigation of 
the burglary at the Martius Music House, traced the 
stolen goods to Bremerton, caused the arrest of eleven 
sailors in the case, and secured the conviction of three, 
who were each sentenced to serve one to fifteen years in 
the Washington State Reformatory. 

Another high-class hotel prowler who worked Se¬ 
attle during the summer of 1922 was Arthur Greggery, 
alias Albert Soberanos, who had served time in both San 
Quentin and Folsom Penitentiaries, for burglaries and 
robberies. He had taken quarters at a high class hotel, 
hoping to escape suspicion on the charges he had to fear. 
Detectives M. J. Cleary and Don M. Blaine made this 
arrest, having observed this man for several days before 
taking action, it being necessary to locate not only the 
hotel in which he lived, but also the garage in which 
he was keeping a Winton used to secrete the loot from 
his prowls. On his arrest jewelry was recovered of 
great value, and the fact established. He was shrewd, 
a fluent talker, and in addressing one of the juries which 
tried him, stated that he had made several rich hauls. 
He was twice tried, and given two sentences, and then 
held for trial as an habitual criminal. 

In March, 1919, A. W. King entered a man’s room 
in a Georgetown hotel, in the occupant’s absence, but 
while he was still ransacking it, the occupant of the 
room returned. The prowler crawled under the bed, 
and when the owner entered he came out and covering 
him with a gun, obtained $173. He then sprang out 
of the window. It was discovered that he had alighted 
in moist clay, which clearly showed exactly the num¬ 
ber of nails in the sole and heel, the amount of wear, 
etc. Detectives E. W. Yoris and C. C. Fortner were 
assigned on the case, and investigated the shoe repair 
shops until they found one to which these shoes had 
been brought for half soling, and new heels. They 
then took the owner of the shoes into custody, and 
when confronted with the evidence, he confessed, and 
was given a sentence of one to fifteen years, in the 
Washington State Penitentiary. 

William Peterson is the detective who has been ex¬ 
pected to cultivate the acquaintance of the colored popu¬ 
lation, and to whom investigation of charges in which 
they are suspicioned is assigned. But he has done good 
work in other lines, as for instance, in the arrest of J. 
L. Wortham, alias F. H. Kimball, alias Thomas J. 


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Mowery, alias Joseph E. Matthews, with numerous 
other aliases. This man is a very notorious bunk and 
forger, and had beguiled one Seattle bank out of $7,500, 
another out of $5,000, and C. D. Hillman, Seattle's 
pioneer real estate operator, out of $5,000. But, al¬ 
though he could obtain the money of shrewd financial 
men, he found he could not cover his trail from Detective 
Peterson when he tried to leave the city. Peterson over¬ 
took him in Tacoma, placed him under arrest, and re¬ 
covered $16,645 of the money. This has been a dozen 
years ago, but Peterson has never gone into the banking 
business. He did give Mowery three to twenty years 
in the State Penitentiary, however. 

In November, 1920, while the family slept, a bomb 
was thrown through a window of the home of Francis 
R. Shong, claim agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 
Paul Ry., at 215 Belmont Avenue North, partly wreck¬ 
ing the place, but injuring no one. The only clue was 
a revolver found lying on the lawn, of unusual make, 
but it was found impracticable to trace the ownership 
of this gun from the factory. Detectives H. M. Barton 
and C. L. Toms were detailed, and going to the claim 
agent's office, they asked to see their files of claims. 
Several days were spent in going over correspondence, 
and it was discovered that one Elon Smith had a griev¬ 
ance against the Company, and that he had written 
several letters, none of them abusive, and containing no 
threats. They were more in the nature of appeals for 
employment, on the ground that he had settled a claim 
for a personal injury for a small amount of money, on 
the promise that he should have permanent employ¬ 
ment. It was considered that he may have thrown this 
bomb, and was accordingly taken into custody. He 
was asked if he owned a gun, and he admitted that he 
had, but it was found that he could not produce it. 
Asked what he had done with it, and he said he could 
not understand how he had lost it. Among his papers 
it was learned that he formerly lived at Eau Claire, Wis., 
and from there it was learned that he had purchased 
this gun there. He was given a sentence of one to 
twenty years on this charge. 

Confidence and bunko cases require peculiar and un¬ 
derstanding treatment. Detectives Joseph Bianchi and 
Sam Simundsen are usually assigned in these investiga¬ 
tions. When they have learned the method employed, 
and received a description of the bunk, they know among 
just what element of the population to look for the 
sharper. Bunko men are ordinarily north Italians, Ser¬ 
bians, Montenegrans, etc., and they prey upon south 
Italians, Greeks, etc. In the recent case against Pete 
Milich, alias S. Skeves, the slicker pretended to be death¬ 
ly sick, and out of gratitude for a great favor done him 
when he was a needy young man, he was about to settle 
upon a deserving, hard-working man, $25,000 of the 
large estate he had accumulated in his years of life in 
America. His father had set such example, and had 
admonished him to be liberal and generous on his death 


bed. The recipient of his bounty must be a man capable 
of appreciating and developing the gift, in short a hard¬ 
working man who had saved some money, the only ac¬ 
ceptable proof being the production of the actual money. 
A shoe repairer was found by his confederate, who might 
be esteemed worthy, and when he brought $2,300 to 
the sick man’s bedside, the benefactor was graciously 
satisfied. Before the victim’s enraptured eyes, he put the 
$2,300 in a tin box, together with the promised $25,- 
000—so the victim thought, but that delighted gaze had 
not been dependable. He was cautioned not to be over 
greedy, and not to open the box before the following 
morning. Upon doing so, he found that he had two 
rolls of papers, with a small bill on the outside of each. 
The slicker had gone. He was traced by certain steps 
to Portland. The victim went there, identified him, he 
was brought to Seattle, and given a sentence of five to 
ten years, in the Washington State Penitentiary, March 
26th, 1923. 

The Identification Bureau has reached a state of 
great efficiency, under the superintendency of Detective 
J. E. Flint. Detectives W. J. Sampson and A. D. 
Opydke are assigned to duty in this Bureau. 

Over $1,000,000 worth of stolen property is an¬ 
nually recovered by the Auto Theft and Pawnshop 
Details, under the command of Lieutenant William G. 
Witzke. The Lieutenant, promoted from the ranks, 
has years’ experience in the work over which he has 
charge. He is a very active, shrewd, aggressive and 
efficient officer. The file in use in this Division, which 
is apparently not susceptible of improvement, is of the 
Lieutenant’s design, and it is remembered in the De¬ 
partment how he labored two years to secure an ap¬ 
propriation to install it. In this file, which has endless 
capacity, every number reported on a stolen article, and 
every monogram, initial or identifying mark, is filed in 
a receptacle by itself, the slip bearing the name of the 
owner, and furnishing the means of locating him. Like¬ 
wise every article that goes into a pawnshop, or other¬ 
wise comes to Police attention, is abstracted on a pink 
slip, and when a white slip and a pink slip comes to¬ 
gether, you have a stolen article, the name of the legal 
owner, and the name of the person in possession. Then 
follows with precision, the work of returning the article 
to the owner, the arrest where the facts warrant it, the 
charge, the trial, and the subsequent history of the case. 
This process goes on without interruption, the meeting 
of pink slip and white, frequently occurring with an 
interval of several years between the filing of each. A 
watch was recently located that had been stolen ten 
years ago. 

The men on detail in this Division quite frequently 
make arrests and recoveries independently on the files, 
records, or system. February 22nd, 1923, a telegram 
was received from the Police Department at Los Angeles, 
California, as follows: 

“Byran C. Hart, a burglar under arrest here, just re- 


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ceived letter, signed ‘A. E. Giffin,’ General Delivery, your 
city, stating: Lyman G. Drury, alias ‘Frenchy’ Wil¬ 
liams, and two women, are living in three-room apart¬ 
ment. We think they have a lot of furs, dresses and 
silverware and other stolen property in their possession. 
Please arrest them and send us all that you can get on 
them. Will send a copy of the letter to you by mail to¬ 
night, in which they state they are working your city. 
Know positively they are deserters from Navy, U. S. S. 
Mexico. Thanks. L. D. OAKS, Chief of Police.” 

When this telegram was received, the two men re¬ 
ferred to, A. E. Giffin, alias Lyman G. Drury, and John 
L. Giffin, alias E. J. Lowry, were already under arrest, 
Detectives A. A. Brown and L. C. Harris, on duty in 
the Pawnshop Detail, having noticed one of them sell¬ 
ing a watch at a pawnshop. They shrewdly guessed it 
was stolen property, but said nothing. They allowed 
the man to go, and followed him, and within an hour’s 
time he joined another man, and divided the money 
with him. They were at once taken into custody, and 
astonishing revelations began to unfold, the telegram 
quoted above being only a part of them. They were 
found to have participated in a bond theft amounting 
to $5,000 in Los Angeles, and to have taken in other 
burglaries hundred of articles of jewelry there. In this 
city they perpetrated at least one robbery and several 
burglaries. They were each given a sentence of 10 to 
15 years in the State Penitentiary. 

A report of a burglary, with a description of stolen 
articles, was received from a residence in the Capitol Hill 
District. Some of the copperware was located, in the 
hands of a dealer, and he was instructed not to sell it, 
and that the office wanted to talk to the man who sold 
it. The next day or so Leo Natoli came to the office, 
and demanded that the dealer be allowed to sell the 


copperware, he having a rather plausible story as to how 
he came into possession of it. Detectives W. S. McGraw 
and M. M. Freeman handled the case. He was held for 
further investigation, and, though still protesting his 
innocence, he was confronted with address after address 
he had entered and ransacked. This was partly possible 
through the elaborate system of records, and partly be¬ 
cause of fingerprints. When he discovered that the in¬ 
formation possessed by the office was definite and un¬ 
impeachable, he confessed thirty-six different prowls in 
the city, from which he had obtained thousands of dol¬ 
lars worth of property. 

The record of this Division for automobile recov¬ 
eries is enviable indeed—the best, it is believed, of any 
city of the size in America. During the year 1922 a total 
of 810 cars were reported stolen, and of this number 687 
were recovered, and restored to the owners. Keen work 
is often necessary on the part of this detail to accomplish 
its objects. They have to contend with falsification of 
numbers, forged bills of sale, etc. H. Webster offered 
a Cadillac auto for sale in Seattle, equipped with a bill 
of sale. The prospective purchaser, managed to call the 
Department, to ask whether there was a record of the 
theft of this car. He was informed it would be neces¬ 
sary to see the car to form an opinion. Detectives J. F. 
Little and J. P. Smith were detailed, and a short check 
of the numbers on the machine satisfied them it was 
stolen. H. Webster was taken into custody, and a Mrs. 
Scott, who it was found was an accomplice, and had 
written the bill of sale, was watching the steps taken, 
and at once fled from the city. The car was found to 
have been stolen in San Francisco, and with the help of 
the Department of Justice, the woman accomplice was 
located in Butte, and returned to Seattle for trial. H. 
C. Webster was given a sentence of a year and a day in 
the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. 



Levi Bradley 

Official Police Photographer 




History of the Seattle Police Department 


Seattle’s Police Court 

By E. E. Beeson 


A N exhaustive 
search of records 
has failed to dis¬ 
close a single police court 
in the United States 
with a record as clean 
and unique as that dis¬ 
tinguishing Seattle’s 
municipal tribunal. Nor 
do the records reveal a 
record as remarkable as 
that of the Honorable 
John B. Gordon, police 
judge and justice of the 
peace. The remarkable 
fact is that the court and 
the judge are equally 
popular with the police 
and law enforcement officers, the prisoners arraigned 
before the court and the public in general. 

It is impossible for the impartial observer to re¬ 
frain from this meager tribute when considering that 
Judge Gordon is rounding out eighteen years of con¬ 
tinuous service and has been reappointed for a term of 
four years subsequent to being accorded the highest vote 
cast for any one of the five justices selected by the people 
in the 1922 elections; and further, when it is considered 
that in the year 1922 a total of 18,575 cases were tried 
in police court and fines amounting to $150,753.81 
were levied and collected. 

Nowhere else, as in the police court, does the hu¬ 
mane element and the personal character of the judge 
so leave imprint upon the records and upon the people. 
The superior court is a legal tribunal where the humane 
element is more or less left in the hands of the jury, and 
the supreme court is strictly a technical legal tribunal 
wherein the personality of the defendant amounts to 
nil. Nothing matters there but the technicalities of the 
law. But in the police court, in a good police court, 
the humane qualities of the judge, his character and his 
personality enter into such close relation with the de¬ 
fendants, the officers and the public that it is no exag¬ 
geration to say that the judge is the court. Here the 
humane qualities of the judge, the court, are tested in 
the flame of public opinion, for it is the real public that 
parades before the court its frailties and its foibles, its 
derelictions and its shame. The true police judge metes 
out justice above all, and humane treatment, and seeks 
to help as well as to punish the defendant. Judge 
Gordon’s 1 8 years of service on the police bench and his 
recent reappointment testify to his humane qualities, his 
ability to help as well as punish. 


The technical operation of the court is of little 
interest, but the personnel of the court attaches is as 
interesting as the judge. Here, again, character is re¬ 
flected through the long years of service, faithfully per¬ 
formed in spite of the trials and grief that comes to all 
public office holders. There are few in Seattle who are 
not familiar with the cheery greetings of Jefferson D. 
Brennan, recording clerk; the bustling activities of Clerk 
William Onstott, and the painstaking and efficient hand¬ 
ling of bail and such details by E. B. Bodwell. Thous¬ 
ands of persons who have passed before the bar will long 
remember the kindnesses performed by Bailiffs John O. 
Miller and John Meek. 

Those familiar with the court routine express ad¬ 
miration for the efficient and capable handling of the 
cases in the great press of business, for not only does 
the court handle the usual run of police cases, but also 
acts as a traffic court, the business of which has increased 
by leaps and bounds in the past few years until at pres¬ 
ent it is not uncommon to find a calendar embracing 
from sixty-five to seventy-five speed and traffic violations 
cases every Tuesday and Thursday. In spite of this 
great press of business Judge Gordon has found time to 
enter into civic betterment work and to prepare a bill 
introduced at the 1923 session of the legislature which 
would increase the authority of the court and give it 
greater power in combatting the dread of narcotics and 
illicit whisky handling. This measure found the im¬ 
mediate support of Mayor E. J. Brown and other city, 
county and state officials. Judge Gordon has had con¬ 
siderable influence in shaping the traffic policies of the 
city and in checking, through adoption of a bail and 
fines system, of sporadic outbursts of speeding. He has 
the record of levying heavier fines and imposing more 
drastic sentences on persons convicted of driving while 
drunk, and of cancelling more drivers’ licenses than any 
other police judge or justice of the peace in the state of 
Washington. The remarkable part of this record is that 
with but few exceptions those fined or punished have 
admitted the justice of the sentences imposed, and among 
the staunchest supporters of Judge Gordon will be found 
men he has heavily fined. 

Many young men and young women owe their 
present successful status in society and the useful every 
day life of the average citizen to the kindly influences of 
Judge Gordon. With an instinct that seems almost un¬ 
canny, he has been able to separate the sheep from the 
goats and by leniency, counsel or discipline return the 
erring ones to the straight and narrow path of law 
abiding citizenship, and many chronic offenders have 
been aided in reclaiming themselves through his sym¬ 
pathetic understanding of their frailties. 



HON. JOHN B. GORDON 
Police Judge 





First Patrol. Precinct Number One. Headquarters 





















































Second Patrol.. Precinct Number One, Headquarters 


















































Third Patrol, Precinct Number One, Headquarters 







































Motorcycle Squad 

































History of the Seattle Police Department 


Seattle’s Needs 

By Edmond S. Meany 


F AMILIARITY with the city’s history should give 
a basis for discussing Seattle’s needs. 

For example: On August 27, 1853, when the vil¬ 
lage was about one year old, Arthur A. Denny opened 
the first postoffice in his log cabin home on First Ave¬ 
nue near Marion Street, where the Stevens Hotel now 
stands. He went down to the beach to receive the first 
lot of mail brought from Olympia by Bob Moxley in 
his Indian canoe. Years later Mr. Denny told me that 
that first installment of mail regularly received in 
Seattle just about filled his hat. That mail carrier 
had to be paid. Mr. Denny had no money, so he con¬ 
tributed as his share a deed to Bob Moxley for the lot 
at the northeast corner of First and Madison. 


From that small and crude beginning has grown 
the great postal system of Seattle as known to the resi¬ 
dents of the present day, with its great central office, 
its numerous substations and the very inadequate station 
near the railroad depots. Mr. Denny lived to see much 
of that growth and smiled as he recalled the first hatful 
of mail. He recognized the needs of the town in his 
own day and sought to satisfy them with the means at 
his command. He was a frontiersman with a cosmo¬ 
politan spirit. 

This leads to the declaration that the greatest need 
of Seattle today is vision. 

Oh, yes, I know that the generations of men up to 
1914 were fond of the phrase, “Both feet on the 
ground.’’ But the generation which is surging to the 
front ranks since 1914 belong to the age of wireless, 
of automobiles, and of airplanes. While they do not 
so often say, “Both feet on the ground,’’ they do share 
the old prejudice against visionaries and dreamers. Like 


the men of the older day, they proclaim preference for 
practical men of affairs. In that crux lies Seattle’s 
greatest need. 

The men of today and of yesterday confute their 
own logic whenever they give their highest praise to 
some great leader. In those cases they have always 
expressed their sentiments by saying the leader had 
great foresight. No one denies that James J. Hill was 
a practical man of affairs, and yet at the beginning his 
plan for the Great Northern Railway and trans-Pacific 
commerce was a veritable dream. There is very little 
difference between foresight and vision. When a city 
translates the foresight of leaders into a plan of action, 
it becomes community vision. 


Seattle has consciously applied this foresight or 
vision in its great water and light systems, its sewer 
systems, its miles of paved streets, its bridges, parks 
and boulevards, its building ordinances and fire-pro¬ 
tection. At the very moment it is using foresight in 
preparing hotels and other conveniences for tourists. 
All this work is well conceived and should go forward 
on the same sensible plans. 

Seattle is, of course, anxious to maintain its proud 
position as metropolis of the Pacific Northwest. There 
is little doubt of its doing so. It is not difficult to 
imagine Seattle’s population increasing threefold. - That 
would mean more than a million people. Such a popu¬ 
lation would mean the surrounding of Lake Washing¬ 
ton with city streets and buildings. It would mean, 
with the swift automobile and the swifter airplane, a 
spreading of streets and buildings through the valleys 
north and south from Tacoma to Everett. 

Such a metropolis will need sustenance, which will 



Second Avenue, 1923, Looking South From Pine Street 

































History of the Seattle Police Department 


Seattle’s Needs (continued.) 


come from the great irrigated sections of Eastern Wash¬ 
ington over more railroads, through new tunnels, and 
by increased water traffic from distant parts of the 
world. How will such a mass of people earn sustenance 
and justify the larger city by prosperity? 

In the past, the native timber, fish and mines were 
sufficient. They will continue to be of great import¬ 
ance, but they will not be wholly adequate for that 
newer day. The continuity of prosperity will depend 
upon commerce and her allies, agriculture and manu¬ 
factures. 

If you study the great cities of the world, like 
London, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Buenos 
Aires, Constantinople, Hong Kong, Singapore, Amster- 


the present time of cargoes of silk, tea, copra, wheat, 
lumber, fish and fruit. 

With these general thoughts in mind, reflect on 
the culpable tardiness of Seattle’s awakening to the need 
of a decent detention station where foreigners may be 
comfortable, at least, if they are to be detained when 
arriving here. If you are a business man, just con¬ 
template what would be your own feelings if you were 
similarly treated in a foreign port at the other end of 
our chain of commerce. Community vision would not 
tolerate such an obstacle across the path of our business 
future. I have never been in Buenos Aires, but I am 
confident that the fourth city of the American hemi¬ 
sphere has long since learned the amenities of com- 



VOLUNTEER PARK 


dam and Sidney, you will find that the basis of their 
long continued prosperity has been in commerce. Seattle 
has felt the throbbing pulse of that same growth, espe- 
citlly since 1914. Who can estimate the increased 
wealth of commerce that will come to the Port of Seattle 
when China and Siberia approach normal conditions. 
Who can estimate the commerce of Alaska when busi¬ 
ness there is placed upon more satisfactory foundations? 
Few places on the planet have better commercial out¬ 
looks than has Seattle. 

If it be granted that commerce is a desirable basis 
for the future prosperity, it follows at once that Seattle 
needs community vision. No commercial entrepot in 
history has succeeded until it became cosmopolitan in 
character. Commerce is business with peoples. One¬ 
sided commerce is barter and barter is primitive trade. 

Community vision will teach Seattle how to meet 
people from other lands, how to treat them and how to 
do business with them in a way that will foster cor¬ 
dial understanding of each other, the only possible 
foundation for a permanent growth of commerce. This 
has been true from the days of pioneer fur trade to 


mercial life and is right now planning with community 
vision of greater prosperity for Argentine. 

However secure may be the conviction as to the 
future development of Seattle’s business, no true friend 
of the city would wish her to depend upon commerce 
alone. Agriculture in the immediate environs of the 
city is limited by the narrowness of the valleys. From 
present indications the greatest contribution from these 
valleys into the general stream of business and com¬ 
merce will be dairy products. 

Beyond the Cascade Mountains, however, in the 
great plains of Eastern Washington, there is a vast 
agricultural empire awaiting development. The cordial 
encouragement of that development should be a part 
of Seattle's vision. Practical men of affairs are already 
pointing that way. They have overcome the former 
taunts of "visionary” and "dreamer.” The crops of 
fruit, hay and grain are already placed in the million 
columns of statistics, and many people feel that only 
a beginning has been made. Seattle needs to visualize 
that empire, and by plans of helpful foresight, deserve 
a part of the rapidly increasing business. 




History of the Seattle Police Department 


Seattle's Needs (continued ) 


Forceful leaders, who might spurn the thought of 
being dreamers, have nevertheless manifested vigorous 
foresight by advocating manufactures for Seattle. Such 
men really have a grasp of the vision whether they 
realize it or not. It is just as clear as anything in the 
future can be that if Seattle is to become the greater 
metropolis anticipated manufactures will play a great 
part in the development. 

Nature has provided for such a development by 
the geographical location, by the accessibility of raw 
materials and by the abundance of necessary fuel, wood, 
coal and waterpower. The wonderful supply of water¬ 
power is attracting attention more and more each year. 
It must not be allowed to run unused to the sea for¬ 
ever. Business foresight has already caused this matter 


and people to construct. The present need is to realize 
that such conditions are approaching. 

My own business is in the field of education. I 
hope it will not be counted immodest if I claim that 
in this field we have caught something of the great 
vision I have been advocating. The public schools 
especially in the night schools, have been placing the 
torch of learning into the hands of every willing for¬ 
eigner within our gates. It is inspiring just to stand 
aside and gaze at that picture. Of course it helps the 
city, but it also lifts the man or woman to a higher 
plane in a free land of opportunity. From my own 
boyhood in the University of Washington I have seen 
foreigners received and advanced side by side with their 
young American friends. No race, creed or color has 



A View on Lake Washington Boulevard 


to be studied by the leaders. Community vision will 
translate the studies into practical use. We are proud 
of our manufactories, but the greater metropolis is sure 
to see them increase enormously in size and numbers. 

The need of efficient handling of commerce in the 
Port of Seattle is already receiving intelligent attention 
for the future as well as for the present. One other mat¬ 
ter of transportation ought to be mentioned. It was 
once planned by minds unfriendly to Seattle to con¬ 
struct a belt line along the eastern shore of Lake Wash¬ 
ington to divert business from the city. In the greater 
city that is dawning the old plan may well be revived 
as a part of the general and extended growth. A few 
years like 1915 and 1916 would surely bring that line 
into use. Within the city the transportation of goods 
and people presents a problem at present. That prob¬ 
lem will not grow less. Engineers are no doubt work¬ 
ing on its solution. Other cities have solved the same 
kind of problem and Seattle must face it with sturdiness 
and determination. It probably means underground 
and elevated lines, parking places for automobiles and, 
possibly, landing and parking places for airplanes. As 
these needs grow urgent, there will be people to plan 


been a bar. The graduates have gone to the utter¬ 
most parts of the world. Messages have come 
back from every continent and every considerable island 
of the planet. Leaders had the foresight to found the 
institution. Then the University seized the vision and 
has clung to it through the years. The wealth is pro¬ 
duces is more subtle than that produced by commerce. 
Yet that wealth of ideas, of ideals, of intellect, of amity 
and good will will never perish. It will come back 
not only to Seattle, but to the State and Nation, for I 
believe it is received and cherished as an expression of 
the best Americanism. 

Anyone who has read thus far will realize that I 
love the city which has been my home for nearly half a 
century. In conclusion, I wish to mention one other 
need, on the moral side. In the old days there existed 
the Seattle Spirit—the helpful spirit of standing shoul¬ 
der to shoulder, one for all and all for one. That ought 
not to be abandoned. Personally, I believe it could be 
retained and realized, however large the city may be, if 
we could all practice the simple gospel: “Thy neighbor 
as thyself.” 


History of the Seattle Police Department 


The Juvenile Court 

By Hon. King Dykeman 
Judge of the Superior Court and 
Judge of the Juvenile Court 


I N THE year 1905 the Legislature of the State of 
Washington passed an act providing for the estab¬ 
lishment of Juvenile Courts. The Seattle court 
was immediately organized by Hon. A. W. Frater, then 
a recently elected judge of our Superior Court. However, 
no public funds were available and the salary of the 
first probation officer was paid by private subscription. 
Notwithstanding these handicaps, Judge Frater struggled 
bravely onward, gradually developing a strong public 
sentiment in favor of the institution, and, after nearly 
nine years of tireless effort he was able, on April 6, 
1914, to turn the work over to the writer with a 
highly trained, efficient staff and a detention home for 
both boys and girls, this home having adequate facili¬ 
ties for segregation. 

At the outset the Juvenile Court was looked upon 
by the older members of the Police Department as an 


obstacle in the pathway of justice. Gradually the value 
of social work in the Police Department gained recog¬ 
nition until today the Humane Division, superintended 
by Mrs. Blanche H. Mason and aided by her staff of 
efficient lady assistants, constitutes one of the most 
important organizations for girls and young women 
in our community. Like credit is also due to Officers 
Mork, Mayberg and Bell for the service they are ren¬ 
dering the boys of our city. The value of this work 
is becoming so apparent that practically every sub¬ 
station has one or more members emphasizing this 
work, and giving such time as is necessary. 

For more than nine years the writer has been 
in almost daily contact with the Police Department, 
and is grateful for this opportunity to express his heart¬ 
felt appreciation of the sympathy and co-operation that 
has been extended to him by the entire department 
during this long period. 



Scene in Residential District 





History of the Seattle Police Department 




R. B. COLBY, Bandmaster 

P ATROLMAN RAY B. COLBY, leader of the 
Seattle Police Band, and a submarine diver of 
more than average ability, has, during the eight 
years in the department, found more thrills than per¬ 
haps any other officer. 

While Colby’s accomplishments as a musician, 
composer, and bandmaster have gained him wide men¬ 
tion, his outstanding feats in the Mahoney murder 
case, when he dived continuously in Lake LInion for 
months in search of the mystery trunk, and his diving 
exploits in the same lake for narcotics, have won for 
him fame throughout the length of the Pacific Coast. 

Perhaps of all Colby’s adventures the most mem¬ 
orable was one in which he single-handed captured 
James Murphy in the act of bombing Pier B, and dis¬ 
armed him at the risk of his life. Murphy’s subse¬ 
quent sentence of five years in state’s prison was 
revoked by Governor Hart. The bombing case was 
one of several acts of terrorism committed during the 
longshoremen’s strike. 

Colby at the age of eight was forced to support 
and educate himself. He has worked as submarine 
diver from Detroit, Mich., to Alaska. The submarine 
diving sled which proved successful in locating the 
Mahoney murder trunk in Lake Union was Colby’s 
own invention, and was widely copied and described 
in magazines of national circulation, among them 
Popular Mechanics. 


A VETER AN of 23 years service in the Police 
Department, Sergeant Percy F. Looker at 49 em¬ 
bodies all of the dignity and authority that his 
six-foot height commands. When Looker, wearing the 
tall bearskin shako of the Seattle Police Band drum 
major, and twirling the baton, leads the band down 
Second Avenue, few people realize the wealth of adven¬ 
ture and experiences the tall veteran has seen. 

Hero of a dozen shooting scrapes during the last 
twerity years, Looker fell into a hole near the Main 
Street garage last February while chasing a negro burg¬ 
lar who had taken refuge on the roof. Looker was 
taken to the hospital with eight broken ribs and inter¬ 
nal injuries, from which he has never fully recovered. 

Looker joined the department in 1900, and 
immediately jumped into front page prominence when 
he was fired upon by two bandits on the waterfront. 
Looker shot one of the men, left him with a watch¬ 
man and then chased the other thug to Argo station, 
six miles away, keeping up a running pistol battle until 
he overhauled and captured the fellow. 

Always in charge of the toughest section of the 
city, Looker invariably acquitted himself with heroism 
and courage of the highest order. After he had been 
fired upon once by a negro bandit, Looker shot, break¬ 
ing the thug's arm. The bandit then used the other 
hand to fire twice more. Looker killed him with a 
shot through the heart. 


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History of the Seattle Police Department 


Fighting the Drug Evil 

By Rev. W. H. Bliss, 

President of White Cross and Anti-Narcotic Society 


T HE narcotic problem has suddenly sprung into 
world prominence. It is strange, perhaps, that a 
habit which is as old as addiction, and practically 
universal the world over, should not have been handled 
more rigorously and more scientifically than has been 
the case. One of the best known pieces of literature in 
the English language is De Quincy's “Confessions of 
an Opium Eater,” in which he details experiences that 
are only too familiar to thousands of unfortunates, and 
yet the world has had to wait until the present period 
really to know anything about the nature of addiction, 
and to set itself seriously to combat what has become a 
real menace to civilization. 

Known as it has been to law-enforcing officers, to 
doctors, judges and social workers, addiction has never¬ 
theless escaped public notice and the consequent pressure 
of public opinion, which is always necessary to set in 
motion the machinery of prevention and elimination of 
any great social disease. The reason is apparent. Ad¬ 
diction is so insiduous a thing that the uninitiated have 
not the knowledge to detect it, even in those who per¬ 
haps live in the same house with them. Many instances 
have come to the writer's attention, where mothers con¬ 
fess to addiction on the part of sons or daughters which 
has run on for years without the knowledge of the other 
members of the family. A most striking case was that 
of a lady of great refinement and culture, the wife of a 
Christian minister, who was an unfortunate victim of 
addiction for thirty-five years, without the knowledge 
of her family, and at the end of that period was forced 
to confess her condition to a daughter in order to get 
the sanitarium treatment, which during all that period 
she had needed and desired. 

Addiction consists in the habitual use of narcotic 
drugs, principally cocaine, made from the South Amer¬ 
ican coca plant, and opium in its smoking form, together 
with morphine and heroin, its alkaloid derivatives. The 
extent of addiction, taken in connection with its effects, 
constitutes an alarming picture. Common report credits 
India with possibly twenty million users of opium in its 
eating and smoking form; China with perhaps twice 
that number, many of whom have, through the activity 
of Japanese drug boosters and white men, been intro¬ 
duced to the use of morphine and heroin through the 
medium of the hypodermic needle. Estimates are lack¬ 
ing for the countries of Europe, but alarming stories, 
emanating from France and England and other Euro¬ 
pean countries, tell of the startling extent to which ad¬ 
diction has spread. The estimate of addiction in our 
own country gives pause to thinking people, especially 
to those who know its devastating effects. This es¬ 
timate, on the part of those who may be called experts, 
varies from four hundred thousand to four million, and 


the mean of these two extremes is probably somewhere 
near the truth. It is a truly terrible thing to think of a 
possible two million addicts among our own people, the 
more so when we realize that probably the greater num¬ 
ber of these unfortunate people are by no means of the 
underworld class. Addiction is no respector of persons; 
in fact, no class is exempt. Not only nurses, doctors 
and dentists,—those whose association puts them in 
touch with temptation and the means of supplying it, 
—but business and professional men, and women of 
every class, are included in the great army of addiction 
slaves. Most pathetically tragic of all are the children, 
many of whom acquire their addiction at the tender age 
of twelve or fourteen. What an element unchecked ad¬ 
diction would become in our national life is indicated 
by the fact that recruits are almost wholly among the 
young, varying in age from sixteen to twenty-five. This 
fact, together with the alarming increase in number's 
which there has been in the last few years, is a sad 
prophecy of what another generation or two would 
mean to our national life. 

The whole problem of addiction is involved in its 
far-reaching consequences. Of all the social evils it is 
incomparably the worst. The social, moral and eco¬ 
nomic effects of such evils as gambling, intoxication and 
prostitution are all found in greatest degree of intensity 
in addiction. Nothing produces such swift and absolute 
deterioration, physically, mentally and morally, as the 
use of dope. Nothing so completely destroys the finan¬ 
cial, social, economic and domestic foundations of life 
as addiction. Nothing is too sacred to be thrown into 
the maw of the dope monster. As one young man ex¬ 
pressed it to the writer,—“The world doesn’t hold the 
money that I would not give for one bindle of morphine 
when I need it, for what’s the use of money when mor¬ 
phine is the only thing I want?” 

Seattle has its own particular problems. A seaport 
city, with a cosmopolitan population from every part 
of the globe, and its close connection with the Orient, 
it presents this problem in its most difficult aspects. The 
best estimates of the City Police and Health Departments 
indicate that the addiction average throughout the 
nation is maintained here. That means that we have 
probably from five to eight thousand addicts. These 
present a tremendous problem, having its three sides,— 
medical, social and criminal. Only the latter aspect is 
receiving at the present time adequate attention, al¬ 
though machinery has been set in motion to deal with 
this class on the medical and social side. For some years 
the City Police Department have maintained a special 
detail for the purpose of running to earth the illicit 
dealer in narcotics. His name is legion. He is white, 
black, yellow, brown and red,—the Indian, Filipino, 


History of the Seattle Police Department 


Fighting the Drug Evil (continued) 


Jap, Chink, and degenerate white; and the word “de¬ 
generate” applies, although outwardly this white man 
has at times a social and financial standing in the com¬ 
munity, seemingly above reproach, but morally de¬ 
generate he certainly is, for the murder that he is com¬ 
mitting would be merciful if it stopped with the death 
of the body. 

During the writer’s acquaintance with the Police 
Department, officers N. P. Anderson, R. F. Baerman and 
B. H. Williams have rendered conspicuously good service 
in this field. Since May, 1920, when the special detail 
was instituted, hundreds of arrests have been made, with 
an exceedingly high average of convictions in federal, 
state and police courts. A tabulation of these cases 


brings out some interesting facts. 

City cases filed on peddlers__ 117 

Charged as being users (State and City courts)_315 

State cases under Beeler law, still pending_ 12 

Cases in Federal court_139 

Of these 10 still pending and 1 dismissed. 


On the 139 cases in the Federal court the penalty 
amounted to a total of 1 28 years, 9 months and 2 1 days. 
This is encouraging when one recalls that until recently 
the sentences have rarely exceeded four months. To 
these prison sentences is to be added a total of fines of 
$2,750.00. Fines in narcotic cases are of small value 
as deterrents, and their total elimination should be en¬ 
couraged in favor of prison sentences. 

It has signified a fine spirit that up until the passage 
of our own state law in the last session of the legislature 
all the more important cases were turned over to the 
federal narcotic office for prosecution in the federal 
courts. The passage of the Beeler bill makes this no 
longer necessary, as conviction in state courts can now 
be secured with as severe penalties as are provided under 
the Harrison act, amended by the Jones-Miller bill. 
This is perhaps the most difficult piece of work known 
to the department, for the shrewdest, most wiley, and 
most unscrupulous of all criminals are to be found in 
the ranks of the peddlers, and it is a case of the survival 
of the fittest. There are other conditions, perhaps even 
more difficult, which are encountered under the form 
known as “protection.” Those in position to know are 


confident of the integrity of the great majority of law- 
enforcing officers in every department, and many claims 
of protection can doubtless be discounted, but no one 
knows better than the honest officer that large sums of 
money pass from the peddler to the official in a sufficient 
number of cases to make the apprehension, at least of 
the “higher up,” a very difficult thing. 

In the past considerable discouragement has re¬ 
sulted to the conscientious officer because of the incon¬ 
sequential sentences doled out by judges. When federal 
court penalties were but a little more severe than those 
of the police court it seemed but a small return for the 
untiring vigilance and the personal risk which this 
branch of police work involved. Public sentiment is 
gradually changing this condition, and penalties are be¬ 
coming increasingly heavier. When we shall have got 
our judges to the point of giving the maximum of ten 
years to the professional dealer, we shall have provided 
some deterrent to the crime. It is public opinion also 
which will make it impossible for dealers like the 
Chinese, Joe Billy, in spite of repeated arrests, to secure 
practical immunity for his own activities through the 
fact that he is acting as a stool-pigeon for certain depart¬ 
ments of the federal government. It is this same pub¬ 
licity which perhaps has eliminated, at least for the time 
being, from the ranks of criminal traffickers, a white 
woman against whom police officers secured two federal 
and one city conviction, with the minimum penalty of 
a $100.00 fine, through the advocacy of U. S. customs 
officials, who represented that she was of great use to 
this department. 

The solution of the dope evil will be found, how¬ 
ever, only when those countries raising the coca and the 
popy plant will agree to the limitation of the raw 
material to such quantities as are necessary for legitimate 
consumption. As long as British India is putting in 
the neighborhood of 1,500 tons of crude opium on the 
market in excess of legitimate needs, we shall have our 
dope problem in its present acute form. Measures are 
already under way, as the result of the Porter bill, look¬ 
ing to efforts to this end. When they are successful we 
shall still have, it may be, our dope problem, but not in 
the acute and widespread form that it now exists. 











History of the Seattle Police Department 


The Mounted Patrol 

By L. M. McInnis 


Acting Sergeant L. C. Gay 

CTING SERGEANT L. C. GAY has been in 
charge of the Mounted Squad four years, but has 
been riding since the spring of 1911. He did 
part of his early riding in New Mexico, ‘ line riding" 
on a large stock ranch, where he got his "breaking-in,” 
as it were. Sergeant Gay is a veteran peace officer, an 
expert horseman, and a good fellow among friends, a 
considerate person to everyone in the discharge of his 
duties and to those of his command. 

Most of the mounted men under his command have 
seen range service. Officer Carson was a Wyoming 
range rider for years and was brought up on the range. 
Yosting also saw lots of range service, being brought 
up "East of the mountains.” Sutton did considerable 
riding on the Kansas plains, and Eggan, a Minnesotan, 
was brought up in Minnesota in a district where the 
only transportation was horseback. Of the others all 
had more or less experience along this line before entering 
the department. 

Sergeant Gay doesn't believe in assigning the train¬ 
ing of the horses to anyone in particular—he turns a 
horse over to a man for handling, and if the horse 
doesn’t show results in the proper time he changes the 
man. The initial training a horse receives is to stand 
without tying, and when the rider dismounts to follow 
him; to respond to a police whistle and the call of the 


rider’s voice, and to become accustomed to traffic, street 
objects and the noise and din of the city until afraid 
of absolutely nothing. 

When Sergeant Gay went on "Mounted” in 1911, 
four years after he had entered the department, there 
were 1 5 horses at that time. Then a change of adminis¬ 
tration practically abolished the squad. Sergeant Gay 
received orders to sell all horses but one, which he was 
to ride throughout that administration. 

The succeeding administration decided to rebuild 
the squad, and Sergeant Gay accompanied Chief Joel 
F. Warren to Camp Lewis and bought up eleven head. 
They were not all saddle horses, by any means, but by» 
trading around the department finally secured a type 
of horse more suitable to the work, and now has some 
of the finest police horses to be found anywhere. 

Many of them were unbroken horses, one or two 
of them being range outlaws. A horsedealer was 
actually in the act of taking "Fitz” out to shoot him 
when Sergeant Gay, happening along, was attracted by 
the handsome build of the horse and decided to add him 
to his complement, and thus saved "Fitz” from an 
untimely and ignominious death. 

"Fitz” was raised in the Horse Heaven country. 
For a year and a half he could not be bridled with¬ 
out first being tied down. He was just a downright 
outlaw, would strike, bite and kick, and did everything 
vicious a horse could do, but through patience and kind¬ 
ness was gradually subdued until now he is as gentle 
as a lamb and will follow a child around. 

Gay’s horse, "Chub,” was not an outlaw, but was 
anything but a broken horse. Gay had a hard time 
with Chubby for a long time. He was deathly fright¬ 
ened of traffic, women and children, but long since has 
made staunch friends with all, and now when he espies 
a woman carrying a bundle he imagines he has been 
extended an invitation of amicable generosity and will 
follow her indefinitely, "mooching” for something to 
eat. And "Mickie,” a little buckskin, was one of a 
pair—had a mate, a ringer for him in color, size and 
appearance, probably from the same stock. They ran 
wild for four years on an island near Seattle and a 
difficult time was experienced in getting them. The 
mare, especially, was determined that no man should 
put his hands on her, and when finally corralled she 
deliberately plunged into a hole, breaking her neck. 
Mickie was brought to Seattle. Never had there been 
a bridle on him until that time. He was just a wild 
and woolly little beast, but after over three months of 
painstaking efforts Mickie was converted, and at this 
time is an exceptionally well trained police horse. 

The value and effectiveness of properly trained 
horses as a means of promoting police protection can 
not be over estimated. 






Mounted Squad 

Actinq Sergt. L. C. Cay. Patrolman, H. G. Sutton, Patrolman F. A. Dise , Patrolman John Yosting, Patrolman Jas. Eggan, Patrolman W. G. Cottle , Patrolman M. Zuarri, Patrolman A. V. Ohlstrom, 

Patrolman U. Carson. 




















History of the Seattle Police Department 


Chief Clerk’s Division 

By L. M. McInnis 


A S REORGAN¬ 
IZED under 
the admini- 
station of Police Chief 
W. B. Severyns, the 
Chief’s Clerk Divis¬ 
ion of the Seattle Po¬ 
lice Department em¬ 
braces the depart¬ 
ments that formerly 
functioned under two 
separate heads, that 
of Secretary of Police 
and Police Property 
Clerk. The consoli¬ 
dation of the two de¬ 
partments not only operated to reduce overhead salary 
expense, but permitted the business thereof to function 
more freely and with a minimum of friction. 

Lieutenant H. D. Michener was chosen by Chief 
Severyns for chief clerk, “head” of the consolidated 
departments, being capably fitted to assume the respon¬ 
sibilities because of his initiative and executive ability 
and also because of his long association with the 
accounting and auditing of police accounts, facts and 
occurrences. 

Briefly, the chief clerk has full control of all of 
the clerical work of the Police Department. 

Severally, the duties that attach to the office of 
chief clerk are of various degrees of importance, fore¬ 
most among which are the accounting and auditing 
division, the secretarial and clerical, the police property 
division, and the missing persons bureau. 

Accounting and Auditing Division 

Herein are handled the requisitioning of the vari¬ 
ous large supplies for the entire Police Department; the 
preparation of all monthly estimates, semi-monthly 
payrolls, and time sheets; the classifying of all bills and 
accounts, and the preparation of the annual estimate 
and the annual report. Some idea of the extensiveness 
of this work may be gained from expenditures of the 
department, which amount to well over the million 
mark annually. 

The assembling of the annual report, which shows 
all activities of the entire department for the year, en¬ 
tails no small amount of labor on the part of those 
assigned to the work. All police cases assigned to the 
different courts (and there were 23,277 for 1922) must 
be assembled and entered under the various “headings” 
of the annual report, which include all felonies, misde¬ 
meanors and miscellaneous offenses committed, the dis¬ 
position of cases, the nativity, age, sex and occupation 
of the offenders; the amount of prisoners’ money, bail, 
and fines collected at police headquarters and in police 


court, and statements of the Police Department’s 
expenditures for the year for salaries, labor, supplies 
and equipment, and an estimate of the probable expense 
to be incurred the ensuing year. 

The annual estimate covers in detail the salaries 
and expenses considered probable for the following 
year. 

Police Property Room 

The police property room, of equal importance in 
scope, is a distinct and separate branch of the work of 
this office. All lost and unclaimed property, all recov¬ 
ered stolen property, and all property held in evidence 
for the courts and all supplies for the department’s use 
and the equipment of members of the department are 
held in the property room under a separate system of 
records until lawfully disposed of. 

Missing Persons Bureau 

With the inception of the Police Department came 
a long line of letters from people appealing for assist¬ 
ance in their endeavor to locate missing relatives and 
friends. These communications have continued to 
arrive year after year in increasing numbers from local 
people, from all states of the Union, and nearly every 
foreign country. 

At first the outside letters were thought not entitled 
to consideration in the sphere of police work, but as 
matters more properly the business of private agencies 
and civic organizations, and were turned over to them 
as such. Such disposition did not prove effective, how¬ 
ever, as the majority of the inquiries were received 
from persons whose financial circumstances did not per¬ 
mit of engaging private agencies, and as it has long been 
realized that in cases of missing persons there is an 
element of crime, sometimes in which the disappearance 
takes place through the criminal intentions of another, 
or others, it was for these reasons that the missing per¬ 
sons bureau was established to handle all such reports 
addressed to the department, however unimportant at 
first some might seem, as some of the most trivial 
inquiries have been the basis of bringing to light the 
commission of crime and the ultimate apprehension of 
the guilty party and the whereabouts of the person 
sought. 

It has been found, because of the natural facilities 
of the Police Department, that all communications can 
be given sufficient investigation and the correct informa¬ 
tion furnished by the department with very little addi¬ 
tional effort and expense and a substantial and highly 
appreciated public service rendered, without in any 
way interfering with the business of private agencies, 
such as detective agencies, law firms, etc., but rather to 
the advantage of such firms, as in all cases wherein the 
Police Department has no authority to interfere and, too, 
where the circumstances of the outsider do not warrant 
police service, the names of the proper agencies are 





History of the Seattle Police Department 

Chief Clerk’s Division (continued) 


referred to in the police reply enabling the writer to 
engage such service as he desires. It will be seen, there¬ 
fore, that the bureau helps certain businesses rather than 
hurts them. 

Out of 672 local cases of missing persons reported 
to the police during the year 1922, only 126 remained 
open on the books at the end of the year. Of the 546 
located a recapitulation of the cases may show some 
interesting facts, will surely disclose some unfortunate 
cases, and perhaps some almost laughable discoveries: 

Of the 546, the dead bodies of 12 were found, 4 
were found in local hospitals sick or injured, 17 were 
found in the city and county jails on various charges, 1 
in the state reformatory, 1 found quarantined in a house 
where she had gone to pay a friendly and sympathetic 
visit to some friends she considered but slightly indis¬ 
posed, and 1 locked in a garage overnight; 2 were 
located by the sheriff, 47 apprehended in other cities by 
police, 129 located in Seattle by police, 322 returned 
home of their own accord, and not infrequently others 
were found to have disappeared to get married, obtain 
a divorce, make certain their separations, or enlist in the 
Army or Navy. 

Of about 1,241 inquiries received from outsiders 
during 1922 about 60 per cent of the persons inquired 
for were located, among them being persons for whom 
a fortune or an estate awaited. Investigations disclosed 
cases of bigamy, desertion, misdealing, and deaths from 
accident and violence, the inquiry and subsequent inves¬ 
tigation being the first lead-off to the discovery of the 
facts. 


Essentially the investigator should be a proficient 
detective, capable of bringing together all factors of a 
case and sizing up a situation quickly and accurately, 
should be able to readily discern from the demeanor of 
people their attitude toward the subject at hand, and 
should possess good judgment and tact, and above all 
a pleasant personality, and of not the least importance 
a wide acquaintance with people in general, all sections 
and resorts of the large city and the elements that attend 
them, respectively. 

Detective H. N. Potter, in charge of the investi¬ 
gations of the missing persons bureau, through a wide 
and varied experience in police service, is highly efficient 
at this work. Detective Potter associated himself with 
the San Francisco Police Department more than twenty- 
five years ago, seeing service at a time when Frisco was 
still wide open and “Chinatown” was flourishing in all 
its vice and iniquity, through periods when dissension 
was rife among conflicting interests and some of the 
biggest and most pernicious lockouts and strikes 
occurred, and coming in contact with the more or less 
incessant turmoil to be found in a large city. Detective 
Potter, working with the police attempting to cope with 
the complex and confusing machinations of an over- 
indulgent people, gained an insight into police work and 
the methods and manners of persons bent on a criminal 
career that has made for a conception and knowledge 
of police work which have not only marked him as 
an extraordinary detective but have stood him in good 
stead through many difficult places and situations 
encountered during his long police career. 



Chief Clerk's Division 

Top Row, Left to Right — T. K. Wild, L. M. Mclnnis and G. G. Evans. 

Bottom Row, Left to Right—Clerk R. R. Cline, Detective H. N. Potter, Patrolman C. S. Hodge, Clerk T. D. Sullivan 




History of the Seattle Police Department 


Legal Aspects of Police Duty 

By T. J. L. KENNEDY, Corporation Counsel 


T HE two phases of police duty which give rise to 
the largest amount of legal controversy are arrests 
and seizures in criminal cases. The legal aspect of 
arrests and seizures has become particularly important 
since the passage of the Volstead Act and the various 
state prohibition laws. The legal question most fre¬ 
quently raised regarding arrests is, whether or not in a 
particular case the police officer is justified in arresting 
without a warrant. In respect to crimes amounting to 
felonies, it is a well settled legal principle that, unless 
the crime is committed in the officer’s presence, he must 
have reasonable grounds to believe the suspected person 
guilty of a felony in order to justify his arresting such 
person without a warrant. 

The courts have held that personal knowledge on 
the part of the officer of the actual commission of a 
felony is not necessary. He may make such an arrest 
upon information received from one whom he has 
reason to rely upon. The Supreme Court of this state 
has held that an officer may arrest without a warrant a 
person against whom he knows there is a charge of 
felony pending. 

As regards misdemeanors, the rule is well estab¬ 
lished that where a misdemeanor involving a breach of 
the peace is committed in the officer’s presence, he may 
arrest the offender without a warrant. A breach of the 
peace is defined in “Words and Phrases’’ (1904), as 
follows: 

“The term ‘breach of the peace’ is generic and in¬ 
cludes unlawful assemblies, riots, affrays, provoking a 
fight, and other acts of similar character. The use of 
grossly indecent, profane and abusive language toward 
another person upon the highway, in the presence of 
others, is a breach of the peace; any violation of public 
order or decorum is a breach of the peace. * * * 

By ‘peace’ as used in this connection, is meant the tran¬ 
quility enjoyed by the citizens of a municipality. * * 

* Actual, personal violence is not an element of the 
offense.” 

Some courts have extended the above rule to apply 
to all misdemeanors committed in the officer’s presence. 
However, the general rule in the United States seems to 
be that stated by Wharton in his “Criminal Procedure,” 
(10th Ed.) : 

“The better view * * * is that the right to 

apprehend for offenses committed in the officer’s presence, 
is limited to felonies, breaches of the peace, and to such 
misdemeanors as are not to be stopped or redressed, ex¬ 
cept by immediate apprehension.” 

It is probable that in the State of Washington an 
officer may arrest a person who commits a misdemeanor 
in his presence even though such misdemeanor does not 
involve a breach of the peace as defined above. In the 
case of State vs. Llewellyn, 119 Wash. 306. the Supreme 
Court of this state said: 


“Nor is it a valid objection to say that the offense 
which the defendant was then committing was a mis¬ 
demeanor. Arrests for misdemeanor may be lawfully 
made without a warrant when the offense is committed 
in the presence of the arresting officer.” 

The State of Washington has provided by statute 
(Remington’s Comp. Stats. § 1969) that “All police 
officers shall arrest any vagrant whom they may find at 
large, and take him before some justice of the peace of 
the county, city, or town in which the arrest is made.” 
“Vagrancy” is defined by the state law (Remington, 
§ 2688) as follows: 

“Every— 

(1) Person who seeks or receives any compen¬ 
sation, gratuity or reward for practicing fortune-telling, 
palmistry or clairvoyancy; or, 

(2) Person who keeps a place where lost or 
stolen property is concealed; or, 

(3) Person practicing or soliciting prostitution 
or keeping a house of prostitution; or, 

(4) Common drunkards found in any place 
where intoxicating liquors are sold or kept for sale, 
or in an intoxicated condition; or, 

(5) Common gambler found in any place where 
gambling is conducted or where gambling paraphernalia 
or devices are kept; or, 

(6) Healthy person who solicits alms; or, 

(7) Lewd, disorderly or dissolute persons; or, 

(8) Person who wanders about the streets at 
late or unusual hours of the night without any visible 
or lawful business; or, 

(9) Person who lodges in any barn, shed, shop, 
outhouse, vessel, car, saloon or any other place not kept 
for lodging purposes, without the permission of the 
owner or person entitled to the possession thereof; or, 

(10) Person who lives or works in a house of 
prostitution or solicits for any prostitute or house of 
prostitution; or, 

(11) Person who solicits business for an at¬ 
torney around any court, jail, morgue or hospital, or 
elsewhere; or, 

(12) Habitual user of opium, morphine, alka¬ 
loid, cocoaine or alpha or beta eucaine, or any deriva¬ 
tion, mixture or preparation of any of them; or, 

(13) Person having no visible means of support, 
who does not seek employment, nor work when em¬ 
ployment is offered to him; or, 

(14) Person who by his own confession thereto 
or prior conviction thereof is known to have been guilty 
of larceny, burglary, robbery or any crime of which 
fraud or intent to defraud is an element, who shall be 
found in any drinking saloon or cellar, or any public 
dance-hall or music-hall where intoxicating liquors are 
sold, or be found intoxicated, or who, except on lawful 


History of the Seattle Police Department 


Legal Aspects of Police Duty— (Continued) 


business, shall go about any dark street or alley or any 
residence section of any city or town in the night-time, 
or loiter about any steamboat landing, passenger depot, 
banking institution or crowded street, shop or thorough¬ 
fare, or any public meeting or gathering, or place where 
people gather in crowds— 

Is a vagrant, and shall be punished by imprison¬ 
ment in the county jail for not more than six months, 
or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.” 

The state law also provides (Remington, § 2084) 
that: ‘‘If, after notice of the intention to arrest the de¬ 
fendant, he either flee or forcibly resist, the officer may 
use all necessary means to effect the arrest.” 

And the law further provides (Remington, § 
2082) : That in order ‘‘to make an arrest in criminal 
actions, the officer may break open any outer or inner 
door or windows of a dwelling-house or other building, 
or any other inclosure, if, after notice of his office and 
purpose, he be refused admittance. 

The 4th amendment to the federal constitution 
provides that ‘‘the right of the people to be secure in 
their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unrea¬ 
sonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated: and 
no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, sup¬ 
ported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describ¬ 
ing the place to be searched, and the persons or things 
to be seized.” The framers of this amendment en¬ 
deavored to preserve in fundamental law the principle 
inherited from England that a man’s house was his 
castle, immune from unreasonable searches and seizures. 
The constitutions of the several states contain similar 
provisions concerning searches and seizures. The con¬ 
stitution of the State of Washington, Art. I, §§ 7 and 
9, provides: 

‘‘No person shall be disturbed in his private affairs, 
or his home invaded, without authority of law. 

‘‘No person shall be compelled in any criminal 
case to give evidence against himself.” 

The Supreme Court of this state, in the case of 
State vs. Gibbons, 118 Wash. 171, held that the pro¬ 
tection of this constitutional provision extends to a 
man’s automobile and his person as well as his home. 
In this case a sheriff had apprehended a man and taken 
possession of his automobile without a warrant of any 
kind. The court held that certain intoxicating liquor 
subsequently discovered in the automobile could not be 
introduced in evidence against the defendant. The 
court said: 

‘‘It is equally plain to us that the seizure of the 
whiskey was not lawful, as incident to appellant’s 
arrest: as a seizure of evidence of crime incident to the 
lawful arrest of an accused sometimes becomes lawful: 
for even the arrest of appellant was unlawful, the sheriff 
having no warrant therefor. It is not pretended that 
appellant was suspected of committing a crime amount¬ 
ing to a felony: nor that he was disturbing the peace; 
nor even that the sheriff had any actual knowledge that 


appellant was then committing the misdemeanor of 
unlawfully having intoxicating liquor in his possession. 
* * * We note that the case before us does not 

involve a search or seizure of whiskey in the home of 
appellant; but manifestly the constitutional guaranty 
that ‘no person shall be disturbed in his private affairs, 
or his home invaded, without authority of law,’ pro¬ 
tected the person of appellant, and the possession of his 
automobile and all that was in it, while upon a public 
street of Ritzville, against arrest, or a search warrant, 
as fully as he would have been so protected had he and 
his possession been actually inside his own dwelling.” 

Had the sheriff in this case been able to discern the 
intoxicating liquor in the defendant’s automobile with¬ 
out first having made a search, he could then have ar¬ 
rested the defendant for committing a misdemeanor in 
his presence and a warrant in that case would not have 
been necessary. Or, had the defendant committed some 
breach of the peace, or at least a misdemeanor, in the 
sheriff's presence, the automobile and its contents might 
then have been lawfully searched as evidence incident to 
the arrest. 

An officer making an arrest has authority to search 
the person of his prisoner, but such a search is justifiable 
only as an incident to a lawful arrest, and if the arrest 
is unlawful, the search is also unlawful. Thus an 
officer under the law of this state, quoted above, may 
arrest as a vagrant a person found wandering about the 
streets at a late hour or unusual hour of the night with¬ 
out visible or lawful business, and upon making the 
arrest the officer may lawfully search such person and 
take from him any dangerous weapons or any property 
that he may reasonably deem necessary to safeguard his 
own or the public safety, or for the safekeeping of the 
prisoner, and take into his possession the instruments 
of the crime and such other articles as may be of use 
as evidence in the trial, or which might enable the 
prisoner to escape. 

An officer may, without warrant, enter a dwelling 
or other building for the purpose of suppressing a dis¬ 
turbance or breach of the peace, and arrest the guilty 
parties. Furthermore, an officer who enters premises at 
the invitation or by permission, of the owner or his 
duly authorized agent or servant, is not guilty of an 
unlawful entry on account of having no search war¬ 
rant. This rule was recognized by the Supreme Court 
of this state in the case of State vs. Llewellyn, (119 
Wash. 306). In this case the defendant conducted a 
place where cigars, candies and soft drinks were sold. 
The officers testified that one evening after the place 
had been closed for the day they observed through the 
windows of the building a number of men grouped 
around the soft drink bar. At this time a man ap¬ 
peared on the street and knocked on the entrance door. 
The officers, becoming suspicious, took a position im¬ 
mediately behind this man, and when the door was 
opened from the inside, they stepped into the place, no 


History of the Seattle Police Department 


Legal Aspects of Police Duty— (Continued) 


objection being made by the man in charge. The 
officers then seized a pitcher which was on a draining 
board behind the bar. This pitcher was later found to 
contain intoxicating liquor. Liquor was also found in 
several glasses standing on the bar. The officers had 
no search warrant nor a warrant for the arrest of any of 
the persons found in the place. The defendant argued 
that the entry of the officers was unlawful, and that 
therefore the seizure of the intoxicating liquor was an 
unlawful seizure, and should have been excluded from 
the consideration of the jury in accordance with the 
decision of the Supreme Court of this State in the case 
of State vs. Gibbons, quoted above. In deciding against 
the contention of the defendant the Supreme Court 
said: “He (the defendant) cites and relies upon the case 
of State vs. Gibbons, 118 Wash. 171, 203 Pac. 390, 
but we think the rule of the case without application. 
There the defendant was arrested while in an auto¬ 
mobile on the public streets of a city without a warrant 
of arrest, and for a cause having no better foundation 
than the mere suspicion of the officer that the person 
arrested was violating the law. After the arrest, a 
search was made of the automobile and certain in¬ 
toxicating liquor found therein was seized. This was 
held to be an unlawful search and seizure, and, follow¬ 
ing certain recent cases of the Supreme Court of the 
United States, it was held that the liquor seized could 
not be introduced as evidence against the person arrested. 

“Here the facts are widely different. The entry 
of the officers into the place of business of the defendant 
was not unlawful. They did not break and enter. 
The door was opened on the direction of the defendant 
and they walked in through the open doorway. It is 
true, without doubt, that the door was not opened for 
the admission of the officers, but it is equally true that 
they were not forbidden to enter. The defendant was 
there admitting to the place members of the general 
public. Already there were a number therein, and the 
officers were admitted when the door was opened to 
admit another. It would be extending the doctrine of 
the cited case beyond all reasonable limit to hold that 
it ruled this entry to be unlawful. Once in the place, 
the officers were justified in taking cognizance of the 
fact that a crime was being committed by the defend¬ 
ant. The evidence thereof was before their very eyes; 
it took no search to find it, nor is it a valid objection 
to say that the offense which defendant was there com¬ 
mitting was a misdemeanor. Arrests for misdemeanor 
may be lawfully made without a warrant when the 
offense is committed in the presence of the arresting 
officer, and here the offense was so committed. When 
the officers first discovered the intoxicating liquor, it 
was in the actual, open, physical possession of the de¬ 
fendant, and the circumstances were such as to show 
that he had been making an unlawful disposition of it. 
Having the lawful right to arrest the defendant, they 
could lawfully seize and take with them the evidence 


found in his immediate possession which tended to show 
his guilt.” 

In the Llewellyn case, the officers actually saw in¬ 
toxicating liquor in the possession of the defendant. It 
has been held that a police officer is justified in making 
a search without a warrant where he is able to detect 
the presence of intoxicating liquor by the sense of smell. 
In the case of McBride vs. the United States, (284 Fed. 
Rep. 416) there came before the Circuit Court of Ap¬ 
peals of the Fifth Circuit a case in which certain pro¬ 
hibition officers discovered a large inclosure, on the gate 
of which was a sign, “Vicious dog—Hail before en¬ 
tering.” Inside was a stable within a smaller inclosure. 
When the officers were about to enter the stable lot, they 
plainly detected the fumes of whiskey in process of 
manufacture. They then entered the stable and in the 
cellar found a 75 gallon still in operation. A quantity 
of beer and whiskey was also found. The court in dis¬ 
cussing the case said: 

“The only points presented in the brief or on the 
oral arguments are the refusal of the court to order the 
property taken by the officers returned to the defendant. 
The refusal to exclude the testimony of the federal 
officers, on the ground that knowledge of the facts tes¬ 
tified to was acquired by means of an entry on the 
premises aforesaid without search warrant or other legal 
process. * * * At common law it was always 

lawful to arrest a person without warrant, where a crime 
was being committed in the presence of an officer and to 
enter a building without a warrant, in which such 
crime was being perpetrated. * * * Where an 

officer is apprised by any of his senses that a crime is 
being committed, it is being committed in his presence, 
so as to justify an arrest without warrant. Therefore 
we are of the opinion that the entry into this stable 
under the circumstances of the case was legal and that 
the court did not err in admitting the testimony of the 
officers.” 

In most of the cases where evidence has been ex¬ 
cluded on the ground that an arrest or a search was 
unlawfully made, the officers could easily have avoided 
all technical objections if they had previously acquainted 
themselves with the fundamental principles of law gov¬ 
erning arrests and searches. These principles are few 
and well defined, and in most cases generally agreed 
upon by the courts. It is true, of course, that the 
application of these principles to the liquor traffic, since 
the passage of the Volstead Act and the state prohibition 
laws, has raised many new points of legal controversy. 
The principles still remain unchanged, although the 
courts are not always in entire accord in their interpreta¬ 
tion of a given state of facts. However, if an officer, 
with full knowledge and understanding of the legal rules 
governing arrests and searches, proceeds in a reasonable 
and commonsense way in conformity with such rules, 
he will find that technical objections offered by defend¬ 
ant’s attorneys will find little favor in the courts. 


History of the Seattle Police Department 


Depot and Dock Patrol 

By G. G. Evans 



Depot Patrol 

Patrolmen C. O. Scott and L. P. Applequist 


A STRANGER in a large city; perhaps a foreigner 
^ ^ from a distant land who does not even speak the 
English language; perhaps a wealthy traveller from the 
East; or perhaps a visitor from one of our many rural 
communities; but one and all the same “A Stranger”; 
and there is always that feeling of unfamiliar surround¬ 
ings for the person arriving at a depot or dock. It seems 
futile to him to ask directions from any one of the 
hurrying, scurrying crowd, for they too are mostly new¬ 
comers arriving or departing. It is perhaps only natural 
then for the stranger to think of the officer of the law; 
how welcome is the sight of his official identification, 
the uniform. To him one can look for reliable infor¬ 
mation, where to go and how to get there, and so on. 
Many people are wary of placing themselves in a taxi¬ 
cab or other public conveyance and of trusting to luck 


to be taken to a hotel commensurate with their resources, 
or their dignity. 

Seattle has two main passenger depots serving five 
transcontinental railroads in addition to numerous short 
lines; these depots, both large and commodious, are 
conveniently situated on adjoining property with large 
parallel trackage; they are within easy access of the 
main business center of the city with many street rail¬ 
way lines affording continuous service. Two officers 
compose the detail. 

The widely extended and magnificent harbor with 
which this city is blessed is improved with many pas¬ 
senger and freight docks, including the municipally- 
owned Port Commission properties, composed of the 
largest wharfs in the world. The two officers com¬ 
prising the dock patrol give especial attention to the 
passenger traffic and their work is augmented by the 
regular waterfront foot and mounted patrols. 



Dock Patrol 

Patrolmen J. E. Boughton and H. A. Horton 




History of the Seattle Police Department 


Police Harbor Patrol 


T HE enforcement of the Harbor Ordinances is dele¬ 
gated by the City Charter to the Port Warden who 
is the head of the Harbor Department. As many 
of the Harbor Rules and Regulations are of a police 
nature, the Harbor Department and Police Department 
are therefore closely related. The Harbor Department 
consists of a force of 24 members inclusive of the Port 
Warden, all members excepting the head of the depart¬ 
ment being under civil service and regularly “sworn in" 
members of the Police Department. 

The Harbor Department performs three distinct 
functions, each tending to aid and assist the commerce 
of Seattle Harbor. 

The patrol system consists at present of two patrol 


chemical fire extinguisher to combat gasoline fires aboard 
motor craft. Patrol No. 1 is manned by six harbormen 
working three eight hour shifts, two men to each watch. 

Patrol No. 2 is a smaller boat, but similar to Patrol 
No. 1. This boat is 42 feet in length, equipped with a 
20 H. P. gas engine and two fire fighting monitors. The 
pumping capacity is 185 gallons of water per minute. 
She carries three inch suction hose and while prepared 
to extinguish an incipient blaze, is used principally to 
respond to the assistance of the many house boats that 
line the shores of Lake Union and Lake Washington. 
Many house boats are built on pontoons and through 
the neglect of the owners or because of accidents are 
often in distress and in danger of sinking. Patrol No. 



Motor Patrol No. 1 


boats, Patrol No. 1 being assigned to Elliott Bay or 
Central District and Patrol No. 2 is assigned to Salmon 
Bay and Lake Union District. During the summer 
months a third patrol boat operates on Lake Wash¬ 
ington. 

Patrol No. 1 is 55 feet in length, equipped with a 
100 H. P. gas engine and three monitors for fire fighting. 
The capacity of the fire pumps is 1000 gallons of water 
per minute. Two lengths of five inch suction hose are 
carried for rendering aid to leaking scows by pumping 
or may be attached to the hose lines of vessels in fighting 
fires. This boat is also equipped with an excellent 


2 is manned by six harbormen working three eight hour 
shifts, two men to each watch. 

Patrol No. 3 is a Navy Motor dory or landing 
barge reconstructed for service as a patrol boat. It is 
about 40 feet long and powered with a two cycle Navy 
Standard engine of about 10 H. P. It is equipped with 
the same class of life saving apparatus as the other patrol 
boats and has proven of great value in the service it 
renders during the bathing and boating season on Lake 
Washington. During the period of its operation it 
makes its headquarters at Leschi Park. 

The statistical branch of the Harbor Department 













History of the Seattle Police Department 


Police Harbor Patrol— (Continued) 


requires the service of two clerks and a stenographer. 
The reports of the commerce of Seattle Harbor are 
eagerly sought by the shipping interests and those whose 
vocations tend to interest them in import and export 
trade. The Port Warden’s reports are sent to all the 
countries of the world, our mailing list being comprised 
of newspapers and trade journals, shipping and railroad 
companies, banks, customs brokers, foreign consuls, 
libraries, statistical bureaus, colleges and many larger 
business interests. Our report has received much favor¬ 
able commendation for its completeness and reliability. 
It is issued each month and is sent free to all those re¬ 
questing to be put on our mailing list. 

The radio division of the Harbor Department is 
an innovation in the shipping world. We are just in¬ 
stalling two new sets of wireless instruments. One set 
is a two K. W. Marconi Navy Standard set and the other 
is a two K. W. Federal Arc set. With our new equip¬ 
ment we will be able to cover a radius of about 3000 
miles and during the dark hours we will be able to clear 


stations on the Japanese Coast. Our station operates 
under a commercial license and is open to all commercial 
business, for which our tariff is 6c per word, but the 
principal usefulness of our station and its primary pur¬ 
pose is in the handling of ships’ business, for which we 
make no charge. The positions of vessels at sea, their 
arrival time, docking orders, arrangements for the hand¬ 
ling of cargo, employment of labor, the ordering of 
ships’ supplies and all other messages pertaining to the 
vessel, its cargo or its crew, are classified as ships’ business 
and is handled free of charge. 

We have also proven the value of our station in 
times of disaster. To the credit of our operators is a 
fact that in every call for help from vessels within the 
range of our station they have been the first to catch the 
SOS and our intimate acquaintance and association 
with the agents and ship operators enables us to put 
them in immediate communication with their vessels, 
expediting any arrangements that may be necessary to 
render immediate aid. 



Seattle Civic Center 

















History of the Seattle Police Department 


Seattle, Gateway to Alaska and the Orient 


T HE first people to settle at or near what is now 
Seattle came in 1851. In 1852 they located the 
townsite, and from the Oregon Legislature secured 
creation of the County of King. A number of these 
pioneers are still living, and are esteemed most highly 
among the present-day residents of the county. In 
1853 they platted the town and called it Seattle. In 
three years it had become a place of 150 inhabitants, 
with steam sawmills, ships, stores, church and other 
town features. Indian war then ensued, in the course 
of which the outside settlements were destroyed, and at 
the close of which the population was much reduced. 

In 1861 the Territorial University was built at 
Seattle. In 1863 the first newspaper was published. 
In 1864 the telegraph came. In 1865 the town was 
incorporated by act of the Legislature. This incorpo¬ 
ration, however, was cancelled by the Legislature of 
1867, but in 1869 the town was re-incorporated by 
that law-making body. 


During the years following 1870 came the great 
commercial events in Seattle’s history. They included 
the railroads, the daily newspapers, gas and electricity, 
large and costly buildings, street improvements, public 
institutions, industrial works, banks, wholesale houses, 
foreign trade, fisheries, and all the other elements of a 
great city in the closing quarter of the nineteenth cen¬ 
tury. Lor detailed statement concerning these interest¬ 
ing events there is not room in this short chapter. 

Seattle’s corporate area is approximately 64.363 
square miles. In the city are 378.64 miles of paved 
streets, 750 miles of public sewers, 763 miles of water 
mains and 763.79 miles of graded streets. The city 
owns 2 fireboats, 18 combination hose, chemical and 
pump engines, 7 motor hose wagons, 9 horse-drawn 
hose wagons, 2 steam engines (1 horse-drawn, 1 motor- 
drawn), 2 chemical engines, 3 horse-drawn hook and 
ladder trucks, 8 motor-drawn hook and ladder trucks, 
34 fire stations and 6,700 hydrants. 



Copyright 1921 by Maurice P. Anderson 

Mount Rainier. Majestic and Aerial, Watching Over Seattle, Wash. 

Mount Rainier , 14,408 feet high , is over sixty miles from the point at which the photograph was taken 


Seattle Statistics 

T HE first to settle at or near what is now Seattle 
came in 1851. 

The first church was built in 1854 by D. E. 
Blaine, and his wife taught the first school. 

The first wharves were built by Yesler at the foot 
of Mill Street (Yesler Way) by Plummer at the foot 
of Main Street, and by Butler at the foot of Madison 
Street. 

The first tannery was carried on by M. D. Woodin 
U Son, prior to the Indian war, in the block cut into 
by Prefontaine Place. 

The first newspaper appeared December 10, 1863. 


The telegraph reached here in August, 1864. 

The first pipes laid to carry water were at the 
University Grounds from a spring about 500 feet to 
the westward. 

The first gristmill was put up to the northward 
of his sawmill by Yesler, about 1864, and was run 
by steam from the sawmill, when the latter was not 
in operation. 

The first steamers owned and operated here were 
the J. B. Libby and the Mary WoodrufF about 1862. 
Both were side-wheelers. 

The first bank, that of Dexter Horton U Co. 
(then Horton 13 Phillips) was established in 1870, with 
a capital of $50,000, and Horton put up the first stone 
building in which to house it. 


History of the Seattle Police Department 


Notes on Early Seattle 

By Vivian M. Carkeek 


T HE Police Department of the City of Seattle 
began about the time that Mrs. H. L. Yesler took 
it into her head to start growing a blackberry 
patch. Hardly any person now living in the City of 
Seattle, who was born here, but what at some time in 
his early career was chased out of that patch either by 
Mrs. Yesler or by the constable. The writer of this 
article, not being of a particularly bold disposition, 
stayed at home, both voluntarily and involuntarily, 
and hence did not come in contact with the early 
police. 

This work will doubtless contain a complete his¬ 
tory of the Police Department as a department, and 
anything that might be said herein would be a repeti¬ 
tion of the articles dealing with the history of the police 
already found herein. 

One of the most interesting things, however, is 
that the first policeman was “Joe” Surber, who is still 
living and over ninety years of age. He was known in 
the early days as a great hunter, and only several years 
ago went out and killed a bear. 

In these times, when the city has reached such 
size, hardly a week elapses when somebody is not shoot¬ 
ing at a policeman. Probably David Sires was the first 
policeman to be killed in the performance of his duty, 
and that brings back a somewhat interesting memory. 
In 1882 three men were hung down on Pioneer Square. 
The story is too long to set out here, but Sires, the 
policeman, had been shot by someone and a man by 
the name of Payne was taken to jail as the guilty party. 
A few days later George Reynolds, a very popular man, 
was held up and killed. Howard and Sullivan were 
discovered hiding, and after a preliminary hearing a 
vigilante committee took them both down on Pioneer 
Square and hung them. Somebody suggested, “Let's 
get Payne and make a good business of it,” and Payne 
was taken out of the county jail and also hung. So 
much for the circumstances surrounding the killing of 
the first policeman. 


The Weekly Pacific Tribune, under date of June 
2, 1876, carries a statement that the City Council for 
the City of Seattle had voted to establish a police 
department to consist of one chief and two policemen. 
This was the beginning of the police force in the city. 
This article only attempts to deal with just a few inci¬ 
dents in the early history of the city, taken at random 
from some of the early newspapers, and a few facts in 
connection with the early history of this city, although 
not strictly relating to the police, might be of interest. 

The first King County Fair was held in Seattle on 
the 20th day of August, 1864. Mrs. Yesler took the 
prizes, all of them, for making jam and preserves. On 
March 4, 1865, the first five ordinances of the Town 
of Seattle were published. They related to the impo¬ 
sition of taxes and the building of sidewalks. On July 
26, 1869, William H. Seward, secretary of state, visited 
Seattle. At this time there were no telegraph facilities 
and the citizens knew nothing about it until the boat 
came into the bay and alongside Yesler’s dock. The 
Weekly Intelligencer of that date says, “There was 
much cheering and Mr. Seward came out on the dock 
and made a speech.” 

On July 5, 1869, the same year, was the first 
record of a severe earthquake being experienced. On 
November 6, 1871, the first roller skating rink was 
opened in Seattle, and on May 10, 1873, the first ice 
cream soda fountain was opened by M. A. Kelley, drug¬ 
gist. The Weekly Intelligencer for January 27, 1868, 
announced that the population of Seattle was about 400. 

On May 24, 1877, the first game of baseball with 
an outside team was played in Victoria, B. C., between 
Seattle and Victoria. The score was, Seattle 15, Vic¬ 
toria 8. The first hanging in King County at the city 
jail is reported on September 27, 1877, in the Weekly 
Pacific Tribune, one Jack Thompson being hung for 
the murder of Solomon Baxter, a rancher, it being 
announced as the first hanging in King County and the 
second in Washington. 


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A View of Seattle from Puget Sound 







History of the Seattle Police Department 


Traffic Squad Built Up to “Snappy” Efficiency 


D espite difficult 

situations 
brought about 
by conditions not found 
in any other city of its 
size, which produce un¬ 
usual traffic problems, 
Seattle is given a high 
rating by comparative 
figures showing motor 
vehicle accidents gener¬ 
ally throughout the 
United States. 

Credit for the show¬ 
ing is given to the effi¬ 
ciency of the police traf¬ 
fic bureau, without res¬ 
ervation. 

The traffic bureau was created three years ago by 
the then chief Searing who took supervision of the 
various elements of the general department having to 
do with enforcing traffic ordinances from the precinct 
commanders and grouped control under a single head. 

Because of the few thoroughfares running through 
the business district the problem of preventing con¬ 
gestion entails more than merely “keeping traffic mov¬ 
ing.” Unlike many other large cities, one way lanes 
are not feasible for the reason the commercial district is 
confined practically to three streets. The heavy grades 
of cross streets tend to concentrate traffic along the three 
main streets, also used by the cars of the municipally 
owned railway. 

A spirit of progressiveness has characterized the 
conduct of the traffic bureau and the heads of the bureau 
have been quick to adopt ideas developing in other 
cities which were deemed adaptible to local conditions. 

The traffic bureau now functions under the general 
supervision of Inspector of Police Harry G. O’Brien with 
Sergt. F. C. Fuqua in direct charge of the various ele¬ 
ments including crossing, motorcycle and mounted de¬ 
tails, the combined force numbering forty men. 

Recently the traffic bureau was further divorced 
from the general department through a change made by 
Inspector O’Brien in which the booking of traffic or¬ 
dinance violators was removed from the general book¬ 
ing office. 

The traffic bureau now keeps its own set of books, 
recording its arrests, sets the amount of bail of those 
eligible to be released pending disposition of their case in 
police court, and in short, takes care of its own affairs. 

The change was made for the purpose of permit¬ 
ting the heads of the bureau to keep a closer check on 
traffic conditions and to work out its problems un¬ 


hampered by delays and conferences occasioned by too 
great a spread of authority. 

There is an easily discernable close relationship 
between the operatives of the traffic bureau and police 
court officials—a condition which bodes ill for the 
speeder and willful traffic ordinance violator. 

That the department does function efficiently and 
effectively is proved by a recent incident in which a 
schoolboy was struck and killed on a downtown street 
and the alleged driver of the machine was arrested five 
days after the accident. 

The driver failed to stop after striking the boy, to 
the contrary he speeded his machine. With but little to 
work on every member of the bureau concentrated on 
the case, and as a result, despite the fact the driver had 
not registered with the police, secreted his car for several 
days and had changed his appearance, he was pressed sp 
close he gave himself up at a time when motorcycle 
patrolmen were ready to close in and make the arrest. 

The complement of the bureau is as follows: 

Office 

Sergt. F. C. Fuqua, in charge. 

Sergt. Joseph A. Czech. 

Stenographers—Louis Stokke, A. H. Callahan, 
Frank E. Sweeney, C. T. McKee and F. G. Sands 

Clerks—K. G. Anderson and W. E. Peterson. 

Crossings 

Patrolmen—G. T. Jones, First and Yesler 

C. Skoor, First and Madison 
A. J. Hansen, First and Pike 
J. B. Little, Second and Pike 
A. E. Sandell, Second and Union 

C. E. Hakes, Second and Madison 
E. D. Farrow, Second and Pine 
H. H. Harlow, Second and James 
O. Gulbranson, Second and Pike 

O. L. Cameron, Third and Pike 

P. Kenyon, Fourth and Union 
G. C. Taylor, Fourth and Pike 
P. Olson, First and Pine 

D. Thompson, Westlake and Olive 

G. C. Collins, Fifth and Pine 

V. E. Gilmour, Fourth and Jackson 

H. W. Howard, Third and Pine 

E. E. Covell, Fifth and Pike 

A. R. Wolff, Westlake and Pine 

Mounted 

L. C. Gay, Acting Sergeant: U. M. Carson, James 
Eggan, H. G. Sutton, J. Yosting and F. A. Wise. 

Motorcycle 

F. R. Gladwin, O. K. Holschumaker, R. F. Baer- 
man, F. A. Pierce, C. O. Perry and R. R. Moulton. 






Traffic Division 






























History of the Seattle Police Department 


MAYORS OF SEATTLE, 18924923 



HON. J. T. RONALD 
Mayor 1892 

Present Superior Court Judge 



HON. THOS. J. HUMES 
Mayor 1896-1904 


HON. R. A. BALLINGER 
Mayor 19 04-6 

Sec’y of Interior Pres. Taft’s Cabinet 


HON. WM. HICKMAN MOORE 
Mayor 1906-8 



HON. JOHN F. MILLER 
Mayor 19 08-9 
Present U. S. Congressman 




HON. GEO. W. DILLING 
Mayor 1911-12 


HON. GEO. F. COTTERILL 
Mayor 1912-13 
Present Port Commissioner 



Hon. h. c. gill 

Mayor 1914-17 



HON. OLE HANSON 
Mayor 1918-19. Resigned 


HON. C. B. FITZGERALD H ON. HUGH M. CALDWELL HON. EDWIN J. BROWN 

President of the City Council Mayor 1920-21 Mayor 1922-*23 

Mayor 1918-19 



























History of the Seattle Police Department 


PAST CHIEFS OF POFICE 



W. L. MEREDITH 
Chief of Police 1900-1901 


W. H. SURBER 
“Uncle Joe" (W. 
H.) Surber was the 
first police officer of 
Seattle. He came to 
Seattle in 1859, and 
in 1861 was appoint¬ 
ed as a police officer, 
serving for two years 
as the entire police 
force. At that time 
there were only two 
streets in Seattle and 
the population num¬ 
bered about 200. 




CHAS. S. REED 
Chief of Police 1898-1902 





THOMAS R. DELANEY 
Chief of Police 1904-06 


Irving ward 

Chief of Police 1908-10 


C. G. BANNICK 
Chief of Police 1911-14 



AUSTIN E. GRIFFITHS 
Chief of Police 1915 
Present Superior Court Judge 




LOUIS M. LANG 
Chief of Police 1914-16 


C. L. BECKINGHAM 
Chief of Police 1916-17 


J. F. WARREN 
Chief of Police 1917-20 


W. H. SEARING 
Chief of Police 19 20-22 





























History of the Seattle Police Department 


Roster of Mayors of Seattle Since 1870 


The Mayors of the city since the days of Mayor 
Atkins, and their terms of service, are as follows: 
Mayor Atkins began his real term of office in 1869. 


1870 _H. A. Atkins 

1871 _J. T. Jordan 

1872 _C. P. Stone 

1873 _John Collins 

1874 _ Henry L. Yesler 

1 875_Bailey Gatzert 

1876 _ G. A. Weed 

1877 _G. A. Weed 

1878 _Beriah Brown 

1879 _Orange Jacobs 

1880 _L. P. Smith 

1 881_L. P. Smith 

1882 _H. G. Struve 

1883 _H. G. Struve 

1884 _John Leary 

1885 _Henry L. Yesler 

1886 _ _W. H. Shoudy 

1887 _T. T. Minor 

1888 _ .Robert Moran 

1889 _Robert Moran 


1890 _-_,_Harry White 

1891 _Harry White (Resigned Nov. 30) 

1891_Geo. W. Hall (Balance of term) 

1 892_J. T. Ronald 

1893_,_ J. T. Ronald 

1894-6_Byron Phelps 

1 896-8 _Frank D. Black (Resigned) 

1896-8 - _ W. D. Wood (Resigned) T. J. Humes 

1898-00_T. J. Humes 

1900-02_T. J. Humes 

1902-04_T. J. Humes 

1904-06_R. A. Ballinger 

1906-08_ _ _William Hickman Moore 

1908-09 _ John F. Miller 

1910- 11_ Hiram C. Gill 

1911- 12 _Geo. W. Dilling, Recall Election 2-7-11 

1912- 13_Geo. F. Cotterill 

1914-15_H. C. Gill 

1916-17_H. C. Gill 

1918____Ole Hanson 

1918-19_C. B. Fitzgerald 

1920-21___Hugh M. Caldwell 

1922_Edwin J. Brown 


Roster of Chiefs of Police Since 1861 

1861_ - ... _W. H. Surber 


1869_John T. Jordon 

1870-71-72_L. V. Wyckoff 

1873 _F. A. Minick 

1874 _D. H. Webster 

1875 _L. V. Wyckoff 

1876 _ R. H. Turnbull 

1877 _E. A. Thorndyke 

1 878_ F. A. Minnick 

1879_ _E. A. Thorndyke 

1880-81 ___J. H. McGraw 

1882-85_ J. H. Woolery 

1886-87_W. M. Murphy 

1888-89_J. C. Mitcheli 

1890_ George C. Monroe 

1891-92_ Bolton Rogers 

1893_Andrew Jackson 



W. B. SEVERYNS 
Chief of Police 1922-23 


1894_ 

-D. F. Willard 

1895-96_ 

_ Bolton Rogers 

1897-1900_ 

_C. S. Reed 

1901_ 

-Wm. Meredith 

1901-1903_ 

-John Sullivan 

1904-5_ 

_Thos. R. Delaney 

1906-7_ 

__ Chas. W. Wappenstein 

1908-9_ 

. ._ Irving Ward 

1910_ 

.. Chas, W. Wappenstein 

1911-13_ 

_ C. G. Bannick 

1914_ 

_Austin E. Griffiths 

1915-16_ 

_Louis E. Lang 

1916-17_ 

_C. L. Beckingham 

1918-19_ 

-J. F. Warren 

1920-21_ 

—. _W. H. Searing 

1922-23... 

-W. B. Severyns 















































































History of the Seattle Police Department 


Police Special Detail 


T HE Special Detail is a branch of the Police Depart¬ 
ment composed of what used to be several details 
each of which made a specialty of dealing with one 
particular kind of law violations, such as the Dry Squad, 
which handled principally Liquor Law violations, the 
Moral Squad, which handled the immoral men and 
women, and the Narcotic Squad, which handled the 
Narcotic situation. Since about the first of September, 
1922, all these Special Squads have been handled under 
one head and known as the Special Detail. This was 
done more as an experiment and to co-ordinate these 
several Squads, enabling them to co-operate with the 
uniformed officers. The idea being that whenever the 
patrolmen on their several posts would find a place or 
places in their respective territories that was apparently 
operating in violation of the law in such a manner that 
was difficult for a uniformed officer to secure sufficient 
evidence for a conviction, they could give whatever data 
they might have to the Officer in Charge of this Detail, 
that he may detail men in plain clothes that were experi¬ 
enced in the particular work the data called for. During 
the five months this has been in operation it has proven 
very successful and is believed to tend to more efficiency, 
which was the object of the Detail. The officers of the 
Department have taken very kindly to this organization 
and have furnished the majority of the information that 
resulted in its success. 

The results obtained being as follows: 


Liquor Seized: 

Moonshine _ 689 gallons 

Whiskey _2,4 1 2 quarts 

Gin - 75 quarts 

Beer ---5,166 quarts 

Wine - 3 1 6 quarts 

Arrests Made: 

Charged in Federal Court_____ 35 

Charged in State Courts__ 54 

Charged in City Court___ 95 8 


Fines Assessed as Follows: 

In City cases—$32,785 and 870 days. 

In State case—$3,160 and 10 years, 42 months. 
In Federal cases—- 

1 sentenced to pay $ 200 . 00 . 

2 sentenced to 45 days. 

1 sentenced to 3 months. 

6 sentenced to 1 year and 1 day. 

3 sentenced to 1 5 months. 

7 sentenced to 1 8 months. 

1 sentenced to 6^2 years. 


With Cases Pending in All Courts 


Personnel of 
Captain E. C. Collier 
Officer G. E. Holmes 
Officer E. M. Playford 
Officer P. E. Morris 
Officer G. H. Bower 
Officer N. P. Anderson 


Special Detail 

Officer B. H. Williams 
Officer W. G. Morrison 
Officer J. L. Pederson 
Officer Thos. Feek 
Officer H. D. Kimsey 
Officer Aldrich Smith 


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This detail examines goods taken in pawn or sold 
at pawnshops or second hand stores. A two colored 
card filing system is used, pink colored cards for stolen 
articles bearing numbers or engraving and a white 
card for corresponding articles pawned or sold. These 
cards come in rolls facilitating the writing of them on 
the typewriter. 

The checking of automobiles is done by men 
trained to detect any erasure or alteration of the engine 
or serial number on a car. They are furnished with a 
loose leaf book in which they keep a record of cars stolen 
within the city or nearby cities. This record enables 
them to tell if the car is stolen and of course if the num¬ 


bers have been tampered with they investigate the car 
and the owner. 


During the year 1922, 810 automobiles were 
stolen within the corporate limits of the City of Seattle 
of which 687 were recovered. The detail arrested and 


prosecuted 41 persons for theft of automobiles, 253 
others for crimes such as might arise within the notice 
of a department handling 34 pawnshops and approxi¬ 
mately 200 second hand stores. 



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Prominent Athletes of Seattle Police Department 



V. E. GILMOUR 
“Vic” is with the Traffic 
Division and directs traffic 
at Fourth Avenue and 
Jackson Street. He keeps in 
perfect physical condition 
and was a member of the 
1922 Relay Team. We 
can bank on him for the 
440 yard event this season, 
and in his spare moments 
you will find him on the 
cinder path at Denny Field. 



CON WAL.SH 

Con Walsh, giant weight tosser and one of the 
greatest performers on earth in the hammer throw and 
56 pound weight event, will be the outstanding figure 
in the next National Convention which is to be held 
in Chicago this coming June. 

Walsh is determined to bring home the laurels for 
the weight and hammer throw. In all the athletic 
events in which he has ever participated he has never 
failed to be the winner of the hammer throw or the 56 
pound weight events. 

Mr. Walsh is a man of perfect physique. Six feet 
and a quarter of an inch in height he weighs 2 10 pounds 
stripped. He is perfectly built with every muscle de¬ 
veloped to its fullest. He is said to be one of the 
strongest men in the athletic world. Some years ago 
Mr. Walsh picked up a quarter miler, Teevan, with his 
left hand and held him out at arms length. Teevan 
weighed 171 pounds in his track togs, no wonder Walsh 
can toss the “56” a bit with ease. 

C. B. PETERSEN 

The athletes may go a long ways towards winning 
races and Field and Track events, but first of all, to 
achieve success against keen competition, the men must 
be in good physical condition. During the past season 
Officer Petersen handled this department, and personally 
superintended the training and care of the men, and due 
to his untiring care the athletes of the Seattle Police De¬ 
partment were successful in all the Field and Track meets 
entered last year. A better man could not be obtained 
for this position. 


J. J. CRAWFORD 
Sergeant J. J. Crawford 
member of the Seattle po¬ 
lice team and winner of 
the Sergeants’ 100 yards 
event last year. Active and 
always a booster for ath¬ 
letics. 



W. J. O’BRIEN 

W. J. O’Brien—Broke the Montana State Inter¬ 
scholastic Record for the discus throw in 1915 and won 
three first prizes at Revelli County meet in Montana. 
He won first prize in Portland for the discus throw in 
1914. He also won other first prizes in putting the 
shot, throwing the javelin and running. 





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ROSS C. WATSON 

Entered the Seattle Po¬ 
lice Department in 1919 
and is now with the De¬ 
tective Division. Com¬ 
peted under the Colors of 
the Seattle Department for 
the past two years success¬ 
fully. Watson will enter 
the tryouts for the Decath¬ 
lon event for the next 
Olympic games at Paris. 
Won the Interscholastic 
championships in 1910- 
’ 1 1 -’ 12. His specialty is 
the 100 yards, 220 and 
broadjump. 




)+SP» 


C. E. WALSH 

“Con” to everyone who 
knows him, was a member 
of the 1922 Seattle Police 
Field and Track Team, 
and he performed brilliant¬ 
ly. He has held several 
National and World rec¬ 
ords in the weight events 
and was a member of the 
American Olympic Team 
which competed at the 
world games at Antwerp. 

Day by day in every 
way Con is throwing the 
weights farther and farther 
and we look forward to 
some great achievements 
from him. 


A. E. SANDELL 

“Sandy” is working 
daily with the Traffic Di¬ 
vision, and handles the 
busy crowds and crossing 
at Second Avenue and 
Union Street. We all vote 
him Seattle’s most popular 
traffic officer. As to his 
athletic ability, during the 
past season he added great¬ 
ly to the success of Track 
and Field events at Van¬ 
couver, B. C., Victoria and 
Seattle. Sandell is a lover 
of sport, a consistent train¬ 
er, and we feel confident 
that he will be successful in 
his entries in the half mile 
this year. He is also a mem¬ 
ber of the Relay Team. 



HARRY J. WEEDIN 

“Harry” is the driver 
for the Detective Division, 
and if you have ever rid¬ 
den behind him you will 
appreciate the way he 
performs on the cinder 
path. Lots of pep, and he 
runs every step of his race, 
which is as much as can be 
said of any athlete. He 
was a member of the Se¬ 
attle Police Relay team, 
and will be with us again 
this year. He is popular 
and well liked by all who 
know him. 






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Police Court Report for Year Shows Activities 


April 1st, 1923. 

Honorable Mayor and City Council, 

City of Seattle, Wash. 

Gentlemen: 

I herewith submit my report for the Seattle Police 
Department covering the year ending December 31, 
1922. 

In looking over the accompanying report and com¬ 
paring it with reports that have been submitted for the 
past several years I am struck with the utter inability to 
determine from these statistics whether or not the police 
are doing good work; whether or not the work of the 
police is lax and ineffective in allowing so much crime 
in a given district or whether it is commendable in keep¬ 
ing crime so low. There are so many factors that enter 
into the crime situation and one factor will offset an¬ 
other; for instance, we know that during a period of 
depression the unemployed situation, labor troubles, etc., 
have such a marked and direct bearing and will offset 
the best possible police work. During a period of pros¬ 
perity, when labor is employed, crimes and particularly 
those of a serious nature, are at a minimum, and this 
will, on the other hand, offset poor police work. 

The economic situation has such a tremendous in¬ 
fluence upon human conduct, and as police work pri¬ 
marily has to do with such control it becomes of such a 
nature that it does not well lend itself to statistical rep¬ 
resentation. I believe, however, that the Seattle Police 
Department is functioning better but am also safe in 
saying that it could be better. To my mind the best 
barometer or yard stick whereby one can measure police 
efficiency and effectiveness is the degree of harmony and 
co-operation that exists among the policemen themselves; 
without this no organization can function. Police De¬ 
partments are so easily disorganized and intimidated due 
to pressure of corrupt, political and conflicting influences. 
They are very sensitive and responsive to public opinion, 
therefore, the public itself is the most potent influence in 
raising the morale of the force, while on the other hand 
it is just as capable of tearing it down. What is most 
needed and what a policeman wants is intelligent and 
constructive criticism by the public and this can only be 
had by a better understanding of the policeman, his work 
and his problems. Were it possible to have interested 
citizens spend sometime at Headquarters for a few hours 
during a busy evening, accompany patrolmen on their 
beats and follow cases through the courts, such citizens 
would then have the necessary understanding and sym¬ 
pathy to criticise from an intelligent and informed per¬ 
spective. The public should and is entitled to know 
what is going on. During the short time of my in¬ 
cumbency I have been trying in every possible way to 
have the police become better acquainted with the public 
and vice versa. They are constantly in need of help to 
carry them through the trials and temptations with 
which they are continually confronted. 


Policemen as any other group of citizens desire recog¬ 
nition, approval and appreciation for their work. They 
are taxpayers, homeowners and family men; their chil¬ 
dren go to the same schools that children of other citi¬ 
zens attend, and they feel keenly and deplore the acts of 
indiscretion and crookedness by any one of their mem¬ 
bers. I have profound confidence and respect the col¬ 
lective judgment of the members of the Department, and 
with proper encouragement, fair and impartial treatment 
on the part of their superiors they are capable and will 
cleanse themselves. They know better than anyone else 
the undesirable members of the Department and if given 
the opportunity will indicate and help toward getting 
rid of such undesirables. So that in the case of the dis¬ 
missal of a brother officer the department as a whole 
stands back of such action; if, on the other hand, poli¬ 
tics, favoritism, prejudice and mere suspicion are allowed 
to govern orders of punishment and dismissal, the mo¬ 
rale of the department is lessened and disorganization 
begins to step in. Criticism has often been made that 
the Chief does not have power enough over his men; 
that he cannot take over enough disciplinary measures 
and that he cannot legally get rid of men unfit to be 
policemen. This in a measure is true; but on the other 
hand, the Chief has far less power to reward his men 
for efficient work and good conduct. If he should be 
given adequate power of reward he would not have to 
bother about the power of punishment. As it is there 
is not sufficient incentive for increased efficiency. The 
individual patrolman does not see advances in salary 
nor the hope of promotion and so he does his work just 
well enough to hold his job. It has often been said, 
“That body is best disciplined in which there is the least 
occasion for the infliction of punishment;” that, “The 
best discipline results from the least authority dis¬ 
played.” 

The City of Seattle now has approximately 350,000 
inhabitants. The last increase allowed the department 
was in 1919 when twenty patrolmen were added to the 
department. Since that time there has been an increase 
in the traffic division including clerical help and all, of 
eighteen members, and further drains on the uniform 
force will be necessary in order to bring up the efficiency 
and standard of the traffic division to what it should be. 
We have now one policeman to every 664 inhabitants. 
This includes every individual on the department pay¬ 
roll. The City of Detroit, which during the past two 
years has established, under Mayor Cousens, the repu¬ 
tation of being well policed, has one policeman to every 
560 inhabitants. San Francisco, Los Angeles, and all 
other seaport towns the size of Seattle and larger will 
average about the same ratio as Detroit in the number 
of policemen per 1000 population. 

Not long ago police work was of a strictly punitive 
nature but the complex life of the modern city demands 
more and more from the policeman every day. He is 


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constantly used in juvenile, protective and welfare work; 
he is asked to be present at football games, baseball 
games, at weddings, at the parks during picnic hours, at 
the playfields, to help children cross the streets near the 
schools, to be present at parades and many other oc¬ 
casions of civic and semi-civic nature, and in order to 
meet these ever growing demands we are continually 
taking the uniform man off his beat leaving vacancies 
that we can ill-afford. The City of Seattle is on the 
eve of more prosperous days and growing population. 
Along with its growth we will also get our quota of 
undesirables, so in order to bring up the police depart¬ 
ment to what it should be, to fill out the vacant beats 
and give the five sub-stations the officers that they need 
it will be necessary to add not less than 100 men. This, 
of course, will entail an additional expenditure of public 
money but according to all authority on police work no 
public money is better spent than that spent for police 
protection. 

Respectfully yours, 

WM. B. SEVERYNS, 

Chief of Police. 


EARLY SEATTLE 

Seattle was incorporated as a town in the winter 
of 1864-65 by Act of the Legislature, and Charles 
Terry was chosen president of the Board of Trustees. 
It was dis-incorporated a year later. In 1869 it was 
incorporated as a city by Act of the Legislature, and so 
continued until the adoption of the free holders’ charter 
in 1890. Henry A. Atkins was the first Mayor of 
Seattle and Harry White the first one under the new 
charter. 

The first street railway was built by F. H. Osgood 
about 1883 and horses were used to haul the cars. The 
south end of the track was at the intersection of Yesler 
Way and James, thence it went up James to Second, 
thence to Pike, thence to First Avenue and down First 
Avenue to Battery Street—service hourly. 



NORTH CORRIDOR, CITY JAIL 


tabulated record of arrests and dispositions 

THEREOF FROM JANUARY 1, 1921, TO 
DECEMBER 31, 1922 



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-a 

c 

a 

U 

6 

o 

-a 

£ 

c 

O 


Pi 

c / 

U 

Ph 

CU 

h 

Assault, 1st degree_ 

2 

1 

_ 

_ 

5 

8 

Assault, 2nd degree_ 

2 

1 

4 

_ 

8 

15 

Assault, 3rd degree_ 

2 

1 

5 

3 

15 

26 

Arson _ 


_ 

_ 

_ 

2 

2 

Aiming Firearms_ 


_ 

_ 

_ 

1 

1 

Begging - 

22 

29 

56 

10 

1 

118 

Burglary, 1st degree_ 


— 

_ 

_ 

1 

1 

Burglary, 2nd degree_ 

1 

3 

26 


28 

58 

Being Abroad at Night_ 

23 

13 

— 

5 

— 

51 

Being in Place Where Gambling 
Is Conducted _ 

135 

12 

43 

309 

63 

562 

Conducting Gambling Game.., 

36 

_ 

_ 

61 

17 

114 

Concealed Weapons _ _ 

18 

6 

18 

29 

11 

82 

Contributing to the Delin¬ 
quency of Minor_ 

1 

1 

1 


12 

15 

Carnal Knowledge of Female 
Child _ 

1 




11 

12 

Concealing Mortgaged Property 

_ 

— 

_ 

— 

3 

3 

Discharging Firearms ... _ 


1 

1 

3 

_ 

5 

Distributing Bills on Street ... 

7 

1 

4 

12 

1 

25 

Defrauding Innkeeper _ 


— 

— 

— 

1 

1 

Abandoning Family _ 


— 

— 

_ 

9 

9 

Disorderly Person _i 

691 

362 

347 

167 

70 

1637 

Disorderly Conduct _ 

579 

218 

223 

486 

86 

1592 

Drunk _■ 

405 

452 

1649 

4553 

7 

7066 

Drunk and Disorderly_ 

99 

90 

158 

286 

12 

645 

Disorderly House _ _ 

13 

3 

_ 

8 

18 

42 

Vio. Ord. 42198 (Library) _ 

4 

1 

— 

_ 

— 

5 

Failing to Support Family.... 

1 

4 

4 

5 

1 

15 

Fighting _ 

44 

29 

9 

143 

4 

229 

Fortune Telling _ 


_ 

_ 

_ 

2 

2 

Forgery, 1st degree_ 


4 

7 

1 

10 

22 

Failing to Pay Prevailing Wage 
to Employee .... . _ 





11 

11 

Street Car Speeding_ 

4 


_ 

9 

1 

14 

Gambling _ . _ 

24 

4 

2 

78 

13 

121 

Indecent Language _ 


_ 

_ 

_ 

3 

3 

Indecent Assault _ _ 


_ 

_ 

_ 

3 

3 

Indecent Exposure _ 

1 

_ 

6 

2 

2 

11 

Impersonating Officer _ 

1 


— 

— 

2 

3 

Insane _ 

91 

21 

85 

1 1 

52 

260 

Interfering with Officer_ 

1 

2 

— 

— 

— 

3 

Illegal Fishing _ 


— 

— 

---- 

1 

1 

Jointist _ 



1 • 

— 

— 

1 

Larceny, Grand _ 

19 

4 

19 

4 

34 

80 

Larceny, Petit _ 

7 

7 

21 

6 

38 

79 

Lewdness _ 

1 

_ 

2 

1 

9 

13 

Loitering Around Poolroom.. 

4 

— 

— 


1 

5 

Operating Punch Board_ 

5 

1 



5 

11 

Maintaining Nuisance - 

1 

1 


____ 

— 

2 

Malicious Destruction of Prop¬ 
erty _ 





5 

5 

Murder, 1st degree- 

1 

— 

1 

— 

3 

5 

Murder. 2nd degree_ 


— 

— 

1 

— 

1 

Manslaughter - 


— 

— 

1 

1 

2 

Narcotics in Possession- 

2 

1 

13 

8 

— 

24 

Obtaining Goods Under False 
Pretenses .. _ 



1 



1 

Obtaining Money Under False 
Pretenses - - 




1 


1 

On Warrant - 


— 

— 

— 

7 

7 

Open Charge - 



— 


13 

13 

Prosetitution _ 

9 

8 

8 

7 

7 

35 

Peddling No License_ 

6 

5 

1 

22 

3 

37 

Robbery ___ 

5 

2 

6 

1 

19 

33 








































































History of the Seattle Police Department 


TABULATED RECORD OF ARRESTS AND DISPOSITIONS 
THEREOF FROM JANUARY 1, 1921, TO 
DECEMBER 31, 1922 



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T3 

T3 

C 

a. 

"d 

S 

£ 

-d 

c? 

c 

O 


£ 

CO 

U 

U, 


h 

Peddling Within Limits_ 

2 

_ __ 

i 

2 


5 

Bunco Steering _ _ 

1 

— 


■ — 


1 

Selling Opium _ 


_ 

2 

4 

4 

10 

Sodomy ... __ ___ _ 


— 

1 


r 

1 

Smoking Opium _ 


_ 

_ 

4 

-_ 

4 

Selling Cocaine No Prescription 

_ 

.... 

4 

—— ‘ 

1 

5 

Thread to Kill_ 


_ 

_ 

_ 

4 

4 

Trespassing _ _ 

1 

_ 

_ 

.... 

1 

2 

Obstructing Street _ 



__ 

— 

2 

2 

Vagrancy _ _ __ _ 

10 

4 

36 

3 

47 

100 

White Slavery (Mann Act) .... 



1 

_ 

— 

1 

Vio. State Liquor Law_ 

41 

15 

7 

59 

28 

150 

VIOLATING CITY ORDINANCES, STATE 

AND 


FEDERAL 

Auctioneer _ _ _ 

LAWS 


1 


1 

Billposting _ 


_ 

_ 

2 

_ 

2 

Building _ 

10 

1 

1 

16 

3 

31 

Depot _ 


_ 

_ 

1 

_ 

1 

Employment _ ... _ 


1 

_ 



1 

Health _ 

19 

16 

2 

94 

5 

136 

Junk _ _ 


_ 

.... 

1 


1 

Liquor No. 36242, All Secs... 

115 

13 

46 

433 

102 

709 

Park _ 

3 

_ 

_ 

18 

_ 

21 

Permitting Vicious Dog to 
Run at Large_ 




1 


1 

Poolroom _ 

1 

_ 

1 

_ 

_ 

2 

Using Profane Language_ 

_ 

_ 

1 

_ 

2 

3 

Weights and Measures_ 

5 

3 

2 

12 

9 

31 

VIOLATING TRAFFIC, 

MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES 

Violating Traffic, Miscellaneous 
Charges _ 

165 

101 

5 

1766 

180 

2217 

Auto Speeding ... - 

383 

221 

78 

2139 

225 

3046 

Driving Motor Vehicle while 
Intoxicated _ 

68 

5 

31 

94 

55 

253 

Failing to Report Accident- 

1 

— 

— 

— 

-- 

1 

Operating Vehicle No License 

4 

1 


3 

33 

41 

Reckless Driving _ 

76 

10 

8 

68 

52 

214 

Taking Auto Without Permis¬ 
sion of Owner_ 


5 

2 


14 

21 


FIRST POLICE BAND 
Lt. C. G. Carr, Bandmaster 

Top row, left to right —C. J. Clark, N. Anderberg, J. S. Donlan, W. E. Ketchum. 
/. R. Ticknor, B. O. Brown. 

F. IV. McCaffrey, R. F. Newton, H. H. Mork, W. F. Donlan. 

2nd row, left to right —G. V. Hasselblad, J. G. Day, W. J. Tobin, F. A. Ribbach. 
3rd row, left to right —C. G. Carr. Bandmaster, W. E. Carr, H. D. Kimsey, J. J. 
Crawford, W. H. West, F. H. Risley. 

Front row, left to right—Harry Powers, B. W. Morris, T. J. Rudd. 


MISCELLANEOUS ARRESTS 

Accident _ 5 5 

Delinquent _ 609 

Deserter _ 26 

Fugitive _ 95 

Injured _ 169 

Investigation _ 609 

Investigation (Federal) _ 5 

Lost _ 149 

Sick _ 8 1 

Safe Keeping __ 990 

Suicide and Attempt_ 8 

Witness _ 314 


Grand Total for Year 1922_23,277 

Given Lodgings ___ 2,538 




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Tug of War Team 

Top row, left to right—Patrolman C. E, Holben, Patrolman M. Buckley, Patrolman G. Fulkerson, Patrolman L. A. Monroe, Patrolman J. H. McCulloch, 

Patrolman D. Twohig, Patrolman S. J. Jorgensen. 

2nd row—Patrolman L. P. Applequist, Lieut. G. V. Hasselblad, Chief W. B. Severyns, Capt. Hans. Damm, Patrolman P. C. Buckleu. 



Athletic Squad of Seattle Police Department 

Top row, left to right — Lieut. R. W. Olmsted, Treasurer of Seattle Police Sports Ass’n; Patrolman G. C. Jensen, Sgt. J. J. Crawford, Patrolman D. Twohig, 
Patrolman J. J. Hayes, Patrolman D. Thompson, Patrolman V. Allemeersch, Patrolman C. E. Walsh, Patrolman C. E. Holben, Patrolman J. H. McCulloch, 

Lieut. J. W. Smith, Secretary of Seattle Police Sports Ass’n; Capt. J. T. Mason, Patrolman Fred Mills. 

Bottom row—Mascot John Twohig, Patrolman C. W. Black, Patrolman C. B. Petersen, Detective R. C. Watson, Driver H. J. Weedin, Patrolman A. E. 

Sandell, Patrolman R. S. Keltner, Mascot James Twohig. 




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The University of Washington 


G OTHIC towers—carved Tudor doorways-—mul- 
lioned casements—walls rich as tapestry showing 
between the slender boles of fir woods and green 
foliage of madrona groves—plumes of trees that make 
fantastic pools of shadow on bright lawns—near vistas 
of two lakes and, beyond, white mountains. 

This is a vignette of the University of Washington 
-—largest seat of learning in the Northwest—which, 
surrounded by shaded avenues of comfortable houses, 
with a street of shops nearby, crowns one of Seattle’s 
“seven hills.” 

The University and the University District have 
grown up together, the one from a single building set 
in a forest glade, to a place of sequestered quadrangles 
and broad drives; the other, from a meagre thorough¬ 
fare or two, tangent to the wilderness, to a wide and 
pleasant neighborhood, a community of culture and of 
homes. 

The forest still lingers in corners of the University 
campus—the old forest which Seattle has replaced; but 
only as in a park, or a country gentleman’s estate. There 
are 589 acres in this property—acres of formal gardens, 
acres of lawns, acres of shorelands. Ships from the 
remotest corners of the earth may touch its shore. One 
boundary is a government canal, an ample watercourse, 
connecting two lakes where ocean vessels, of whatever 
draught, may ply. 

The University was established in 1861—not in 
its present location, but on a tract of land which is now 
rich business property in the heart of Seattle, still owned 
by the institution. It was removed to the present cam¬ 
pus in 1895, and here has been its growth. It has four¬ 
teen schools and colleges, offering training in a hundred 
professions. Its annual enrollment is 5,000 students. 
Its faculty numbers 265. There are some forty build¬ 
ings. Among its schools and colleges is the only college 
of fisheries in the United States, and in its college of 
business administration is the largest department of 
maritime commerce in the world. Its library contains 
more than 110,000 volumes, and its law library more 
than 25,000. 

The Museum 

Among the unique features of the University and 
the University community is a museum of arts and 
natural sciences, housed in a massive building whose 
frame consists of large columns of native fir trees, vary¬ 
ing from five to six feet in diameter, and from forty- 
two to fifty-four feet in height. 

The museum collections number over 100,000 
specimens with an approximate value of $200,000. 
Extensive exhibits are arranged showing the mineral, 
lumbering, and horticultural resources of the state and of 
Alaska. An exhibit of local birds, arranged in sys¬ 
tematic order and is illustrated by groups showing their 


natural habitat. Elaborate habitat groups of large 
animals, such as elk, bear, deer, mountain goats and 
cougar, mounted according to the latest methods of 
scientific taxidermy, have been installed. 1 he marine 
fauna is represented by a series of mounted fishes of the 
northwest coast, corals, sponges, crustaceans and mount¬ 
ed shells. Rare specimens illustrative of the extinct 
mammoth and mastodon from Alaska and the state of 
Washington, are also on exhibition. 

Collections illustrative of the life, arts and in¬ 
dustries of the Indian tribes of the northwest coast from 
the Columbia river northward through Arctic Alaska 
are arranged in tribal sequence. The Emmons Tlingit 
collection from Southeastern Alaska is one of the most 
complete from that section to be found in any museum, 
and the Eskimo collection from Arctic Alaska is equally 
rare and valuable. In addition there is a small and 
interesting series from the so-called Blonde Eskimos, on 
Coronation Gulf. A collection of pottery and basketry 
illustrate the art of the Indian tribes of Southwestern 
United States. An unusual and rare collection illustra¬ 
tive of the archeology of the Columbia river region of 
eastern Washington was recently added. 

The Philippine collections contain interesting speci¬ 
mens of Moro handicraft such as brasses, hats, textiles, 
and implements of warfare; examples of the character¬ 
istic beadwork of the Bogobos on the island of Min¬ 
danao; and of articles of dress and implements of war¬ 
fare of the Igorrots and other primitive tribes on the 
island of Luzon. 

There are interesting collections of porcelains, em¬ 
broideries, carvings, scrolls, clothing and Buddhas from 
northern China; specimens from various islands of Oce- 
anica and Australia; Norwegian spinning wheels, chests, 
household articles and other materials of the early eigh¬ 
teenth contury; a collection of guns, pistols, and other 
firearms: relics of the Great War given or loaned by per¬ 
sons who collected them while in the service of their 
country; a colonial collection of early furniture, pewter, 
glassware, potteries, documents and photographs, and 
historical materials representative of pioneer days in the 
Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. 

The fine arts section contains interesting collections 
of paintings, tapestries and carvings, etc., and a collec¬ 
tion of rare antique laces, Paisley and India shawls, por¬ 
celains, engravings, textiles and sculpture, which have 
either been given or are loaned indefinitely to the mu¬ 
seum. Special exhibits are arranged in the exhibition 
rooms on the first floor from time to time, notices of 
which are published at the time of the exhibition. 

The herbarium of over 15,000 specimens contains 
a characteristic series of northwest flora and a collection 
of mosses which is one of the most complete in the 
United States. 


History of the Seattle Police Department 


The University District 

By John H. Reid 


N OT so many years ago what is now known as 
the University District of the City of Seattle 
was a virgin forest. With the moving of the 
University campus in 1895 the development began of 
that region which lies north of Lake Union, and a 
steady and permanent growth has continued ever since. 
Today the University District holds first place as a 
residential community in the minds of the people of 
Seattle. This has come about through the settlement 
near the campus of a highly cultured class of people 
who, by their thrift and high ideals, have maintained 
the community life at the highest standards. 

Through the years a splendid co-operation has 
existed between the business and professional interests 
of the community and the administration and faculty 


approaching the importance in the financial life of the 
city which rank second only to the biggest banks in 
Seattle. Likewise many mercantile establishments have 
grown to such size and efficiency that they are com¬ 
manding the attention of big business. 

Almost every business and profession is repre¬ 
sented in the district, giving it the appearance of a 
city by itself. You can build, furnish and decorate 
your home, furnish and adorn your table with all the 
necessities and delicacies, fill and replenish your ward¬ 
robe, and your bodily comforts will be cared for by the 
most excellent service rendered by coal and wood dealers. 
Then the artistic side of the community is amply taken 
care of by those who deal in the things beautiful and 
teach the residents how to keep up the best appearances. 



University Way (Fourteenth Ave. N. E.) looking North 


of the University. This co-operation has developed 
to such an extent that when any reasonable project 
is advanced by either side that project is almost certain 
to meet with success. Every worth-while enterprise 
has received a common unity of support. 

The district now has, and there are in the course 
of construction, some of the finest buildings in the 
city. The streets are paved and are improved with 
ornamented parking strips. Residences of the bunga¬ 
low type predominate, with now and then a home of 
larger dimensions, surrounded by grounds, richly orna¬ 
mented with trees, shrubs and flowers. A section of 
the district north of the campus is given over almost 
entirely to modern structures of elegant architectural 
designs. These buildings are the new homes of the 
fraternities and sororities of the University of Wash¬ 
ington. 

Foremost in the business life of the community 
are two large and prosperous banks. These institu¬ 
tions have grown up from small beginnings and are fast 


Besides the University of Washington, the com¬ 
munity is rich in elementary educational facilities. Grade 
schools and high schools are within walking distance 
of every resident. These schools are as up to date as 
any in the country and are noted for their scholastic 
attainments. Backing up these institutions are splen¬ 
didly equipped public libraries. 

The religious side of the community is excep¬ 
tionally well taken care of. Every outstanding sect 
and domination is represented by well-built and com¬ 
modious places of worship and nearly all have modern 
schools of religious education. The high standards 
of the community demand and secure the highest type 
of men to fill the pulpits of the various churches. 

The religious work of the churches is supple¬ 
mented among the youths through the Community 
Y. M. C. A. which, through efficient leaders and ath¬ 
letic directors has successfully worked with the boys 
for years. The association maintains a central office 
and has its workers at schools and on playfields. 










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The University Commercial Club 


T)UBLIC-SPIRITED citizens and business and pro- 
fessional men are united for district welfare in the 
University Commercial Club, a pioneer among subur¬ 
ban community organization. Ever at hand to 
advance all worthy projects for the district and for the 
city, the club has grown with its community until it 
has reached a membership of 235. The group repre¬ 
sents typically the community as a whole, because in 
all its activities, every interest of the district is con¬ 
sidered. 

Functioning through its board of directors and the 
standing committees of promotion, budget fund, im¬ 
provement, membership, ways and means, entertain¬ 
ment and athletics, the club is identified with several 


outstanding accomplishments, either indirectly or in 
co-operation with other agencies. Recent achievements 
include the securing of ornamental street lights for Uni¬ 
versity Way, extensive advertising campaigns on behalf 
of the business men, assistance in advertising the Uni¬ 
versity of Washington, particularly the summer session; 
material assistance in such projects as the Roosevelt High 
School, proposed Montlake-Stadium bridge. Sand Point 
aviation field, and other local improvements, including 
paving and beautifying of the district’s streets. 

The club has always stood ready to co-operate with 
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and with other com¬ 
mercial and civic groups in promoting the development 
of the city and Northwest. 



Seattle Police Jazz Band 

Leader—Inspector H. G. O’Brien. 

Back row—Officers L. Brown. P. Playford, R. Vallet, E. Vallet, R. Ozura. 

Front row—Miss Agnes Hunt, Inspector H. G. O'Brien, E. M. Playford, Wm. Stephens. 

The Police Department’s “J azz ” Orchestra 

T T is to the credit of any department to have within its membership sufficient talent for the organization of a 
^ Brass Band, to say nothing of an “Orchestra” capable of rendering anything from syncopated jazz to classi¬ 
cal music, and lyric song to grand opera by its very fine Male Quartette. The members are further accomplished 
by their ability to “double,” thus effecting a change of instruments and tone, an alternation furnishing a variety 
of music most entertaining. 

The Police Orchestra, composed of nine pieces, was organized by Inspector Harry G. O'Brien in the spring 
of 1921, primarily for the purpose of promoting social functions and harmonious relations between members of 
the Department, their respective families and friends, then branched out furnishing entertainment to charitable 
bazaars and for the enjoyment of “shut-in’s.” 







History of the Seattle Police Department 


Some Famous Cases 

A Few of the Noted Criminal Cases Handled by 
the Seattle Police Prior to 1907 

Taken from the History of the Police Department, 1907. 


F OLLOWING are a few of the most famous fights 
and other cases that call for particular mention. 
These are only a few, hundreds of others just as 
worthy of note never come to public notice: 

Detective Wells was killed in front of police head¬ 
quarters on the night of November 29, 1897, by Charles 
Phillips, a half-breed. Phillips was arrested and taken 
to headquarters in the patrol wagon by Driver J. F. 
Weedin and Detective Wells. In getting Phillips out 
of the wagon, Wells removed his eyes from the pris¬ 
oner for just one second. Quick as a flash Phillips shot 
Wells in the face, leaped from the wagon and started 
south on Third Avenue. Wells had fallen, but, full 
of grit to the last, staggered to his feet, drew his revolver 
and fired at the fugitive. Phillips turned and gave 
Wells his mortal wound. Sheriff Moyer jumped from 
a passing car in pursuit, firing his revolver as he ran. 
Captain John Sullivan and Detectives L. A. Barbee and 
W. L. Meredith also joined in the chase. Phillips took 
refuge under a house at Fourth Avenue South and Main 
Street. When the detectives called on him to surrender 
he was in the act of firing his unemptied weapon. A 
welLaimed shot from one of the detectives shattered his 
wrist and disarmed him. He was tried and convicted 
of murder, and sentenced to twelve years at hard labor. 

Officers Roberts and Day, while on duty in the 
Renton Hill Addition, on the night of April 1 1, 1898, 
met two old offenders—Schaeffer and Stewart. The 
officers halted them, knowing at a glance that both men 
were old jailbirds. Policeman Day questioned the men, 
when, without warning, a shot was fired, mortally 
wounding Officer Roberts. Schaefer and Stewart started 
on a run, shooting at Day, who was in close pursuit. 
One bullet tore through his clothing on the left side, 
taking out eight inches of his coat. The murderers 
escaped in the darkness and, up to date, have not been 
apprehended. Roberts was a good officer and a fearless 
man. 

Sergeant W. I. Peer and Patrolman D. F. Willard 
(now captain) captured two of the most desperate and 
vicious hold-up men that ever operated on the Coast. 
These men—Clark and Davis—were badly wanted on 
various charges by the police all over the country. They 
held up and robbed, in one night, four men in Seattle. 
The above officers were placed on the case, and they 
finally located and arrested their men, brought them to 
the station and locked them up. In some unaccount¬ 
able manner Clark or Davis secured possession of a 
razor and, catching the jailer unawares, nearly killed 
him in an effort to escape. They were afterwards con¬ 
victed and sentenced to thirty-six years each. 


On of the best remembered and most daring burg¬ 
laries ever committed on the Coast was that of Finck’s 
store. Three very skillful safeblowers, Harry Munroe, 
alias Joe Howard, aged 36; J. C. Webster, aged 27, and 
Fred Buchan, 22 years old, were caught and sentenced 
to terms in prison. They blew open the safe and 
cleaned out Finck’s store, securing $10,000 worth of 
goods. By a brilliant piece of detective work Chief 
C. S. Reed worked up this case, assisted by Detectives 
M. T. Powers, John Williams and Ed Cudihee. 

A1 Harris, a noted murderer and desperado, nearly 
killed Patrolman C. A. Corning, who ran him down 
and finally captured him in a shack on the waterfront, 
between Blanchard and Bell Streets. Corning entered 
the door: as he did so Harris swung a vicious blow with 
an axe which, if it had landed, would have decapitated 
him. Corning jumped to one side, and a desperate 
struggle ensued. Harris was finally subdued, but not 
without fierce resistance. 

John Corbett, until his death, bore the scars of 
fourteen wounds inflicted by a knife wielded by John 
O'Conner, who had robbed a man of a sum of money. 
Corbett, who was then a patrolman, attempted to 
arrest O’Conner in a saloon near the corner of Wash¬ 
ington and Railroad Avenue. O’Conner opened fire 
with his revolver, but Corbett very promptly knocked 
him down and disarmed him: quick as lightning the 
prisoner drew a knife. The first slash nearly severed 
Corbett’s left wrist, the second slash cut him across the 
nose. The fight was now one for life; O’Conner, 
slashing furiously in his frantic efforts to escape. Cor¬ 
bett clung to his man with bulldog tenacity, defending 
himself as best he could; he was weak from loss of 
blood that was streaming from his numerous wounds. 
Finally, in self defense, he was compelled to draw his 
pistol and shoot O’Conner dead. This was probably 
one of the most desperate hand-to-hand encounters that 
ever took place in this city. Corbett finally recovered 
from his terrible wounds and resumed active duty; but 
carried the scars of this combat to his grave. This 
fight occurred in the spring of 1895. 

There are a number of the older residents of 
Seattle who remember the murder of George Reynolds 
on January 18, 1882. Reynolds was on his way 
home when he was held up on Third Avenue by two 
men, Sullivan and Howard, who ordered him to throw 
up his hands. He drew his revolver and they killed 
him, took to flight and were captured the same night 
on Harrington & Smith’s wharf; were given a hearing 
before Justice Coombs, who ordered them locked up, 
which was done, not, however, without much difficulty. 


History of the Seattle Police Department 


Some Famous Cases— (continued) 


Deputy Sheriff Mills, Chief Woolery and other officials 
had a hard time to keep the citizens from using violence 
toward the prisoners. At that time there was a reign 
of terror, owing to the many hold-ups. The citizens 
were organized as vigilantes, and were determined to 
end the robberies. 

On the 19th the prisoners were to have a prelimi¬ 
nary examination. It was held during intense excite¬ 
ment. The building was surrounded by a dense throng. 
In the meantime other excited men had repaired to 
Occidental Square, threw ropes over the limbs of two 
trees, then overpowered the officers of the law, took 
the prisoners, Sullivan and Howard, as well as another 
accused murderer, Payne, who had shot a fireman, and 
lynched all three. After this the crowd quietly dis- 


bett knocked him senseless with the butt of his revolver 
that he was handcuffed and taken to the city jail. 

His sensational escape from the county jail, where 
he had been removed for safe keeping, was effected with 
the aid of a wooden gun that he made—a most perfect 
imitation of a 45-calibre Smith & Wesson. He held up 
Jailer Yarborough and compelled him to open the ceil 
door. Blanke took the jailer’s keys and liberated a 
number of other prisoners; some were afterwards recap¬ 
tured, but Blanke was killed by a sheriff’s posse, thus 
ending the career of one of the most dangerous 
criminals. 

During the financial depression of 1883 to 1886 
Seattle was also harassed by anti-Chinese riots, and 
just as this disorder was quelled the great fire of 



Puc.et Sound and the Olympic Mountains 


persed. Among those who were overpowered and pre¬ 
vented from interfering with this execution were Judge 
Roger S. Green, Justice Coombs, Judge Cann, and many 
other leading officials. 

The notorious Tom Blanke had a record of four 
murders previous to his killing of Bidwell. The police 
were on the lookout for this desperado, and Detective 
Ed Cudihee located him in the Bay View House, West¬ 
ern Avenue and Clay Street. Taking Officer John Cor¬ 
bett with him, they went to the above place to arrest 
Blanke. Corbett was stationed at the door to prevent 
escape. Cudihee ascended the stairs and reached the 
room where Blanke was. The detective had barely 
opened the door when a pistol was fired, the ball pass¬ 
ing through his hat. Cudihee sprang at his man and a 
terrific struggle ensued, Blanke straining every nerve to 
kill the plucky officer. Corbett, hearing the shot, hur¬ 
ried to the rescue, and arrived just as Cudihee had suc¬ 
ceeded in gaining possession of Blanke’s weapon. It 
required the efforts of both men to subdue him. Blanke 
made a stubborn resistance, and it was not until Cor- 


June, 1889, wiped out the entire business district 
of the city, including several stores, banks, warehouses, 
hotels, wharves and shipping facilities, and all the 
industrial plants and stocks of merchandise were con¬ 
sumed. Much suffering was avoided by the prompt 
aid of outside cities, Tacoma giving the entire amount 
raised from a Fourth of July celebration in that city. 
Many citizens of Tacoma gave their time as long as 
needed. The day after the disaster the citizens of 
Seattle held a mass meeting over the smoking ruins and 
considered plans to rebuild the city on a larger and 
better scale, and in less than two years they made good 
their resolutions. Financial reverses caused the wealth 
of many to vanish during the decade following the fire, 
but the population of the city doubled between 1890 
and 1900. By standing together, the banks averted 
a general crash during the panic. In 1899 a new char¬ 
ter with amendments was adopted. The “Seattle 
Ditch,’’ as the canal project was then derisively styled 
by many, was made a state political issue, and John H. 
McGraw was elected governor because of his loyalty 
















History of the Seattle Police Department 


Some Famous Cases— (continued) 


to the “ditch” project. The first large consignment of 
gold from the Klondike was received here in 1897 and 
commerce suddenly boomed. By handling the huge 
crowds of goldseekers and supplying them for their 
trip, and later receiving them and their gold, Seattle 
was made the Alaska headquarters for the Pacific Coast 
and it has remained here ever since to her great financial 
and business betterment. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific 
Exposition, which was held in Seattle in 1909, adver¬ 
tised Alaska and the Northwest in the best possible 
manner. From a struggling city of about 40,000 
inhabitants before the coming of the magical treasure 
ship from the North, Seattle has become a very wealthy 
city of 315,652 people, and the boom still on in full 
force. 

During the years 1884, 1885 and 1886, “hard 
times,” financial depression and general stagnation of 
business prevailed all along the Pacific Coast, and mills, 
factories and common labor suffered much from idle¬ 
ness. It was at this time that the 100,000 Chinamen 
scattered along the Coast, having no families to sup¬ 
port, and being able to live along on a few cents a 
day, crowded out white labor because they could work 
for almost nothing. Consequently the laboring men 


began to feel that the Chinese were responsible for the 
grievous state of affairs, and individual assaults on 
Chinese were followed by riots. Wholesale murders of 
Chinamen occurred in California, Colorado, Wyoming 
and Washington. Early one Sunday in January, 1886, 
a mob collected, and in a few hours had driven the 
entire Chinese population to the foot of Main Street, 
openly declaring that the Mongolians would have to 
sail for other parts on the steamer then at the dock. 

About this time, however, the mob really became 
unmanageable, the police being unable to cope success¬ 
fully with the lawless element, so the governor called 
out the militia, two companies of the National Guard, 
fully armed, going to the rescue of the unhappy Celes¬ 
tials. The Chinese were started towards the Court 
House, now the City Hall, but intercepted at Second 
Avenue and Main Street by the angry mob. A volley 
was fired by the militiamen, and when the smoke cleared 
away five men in the mob were found wounded, one 
of them dying soon after. This ended the resistance 
of the mob. Some of the Chinese departed voluntarily 
on the steamer, and those that remained were guarded 
by the local police, assisted by regular troops sent here 
from Vancouver at the request of the governor. 





A View of Seattle in 1878 


'C'ORTY-FIVE years ago, when Seattle was a timbered wilderness inhabited by a few pioneer white men 
and women, there were no railroads, no regular steamship services, and no outside communication. 

Today Seattle is a world-known metropolitan city, the largest community west of Minneapolis and north 
of San Francisco. It is the terminal of five transcontinental railroads. The former frontier city of a few hundred 
souls is now a city of 315,652. The western outpost has become the financial, commercial, industrial and dis¬ 
tributing center for the empire of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and is America’s chief Pacific port in 
Asiatic business. Seattle is where a great world city had to be. 

Some cities grow great because they have good harbors, located on world trade routes; others because they 
are railroad centers; others because they are situated in the heart of a region rich in basic resources and raw 
materials; others because of favorable climatic conditions, and still others because the caliber of citizenship is 
such as to make for community team play and prosperity. Seattle has this combination of advantages and still 
others favorable to building a world city. 

Seattle is the largest city of its age in the nation. 




History of the Seattle Police Department 



Women’s Protective Division 

' I ' HE function of this Division is to do preventive, protective, rescue and humane work for women and chil- 
dren. The work of the Division is directed by the Superintendent subject to the general orders of the Chief 
of Police. The Division investigates reports of the above nature, cooperates with the Juvenile and other Courts, 
furnishing assistance and evidence in cases under investigation or prosecution. It specializes and also cooperates 
with the entire Police Department in searching for juvenile runaways and assists in such other emergency work 
affecting women and children as arises daily throughout the whole Department. 

The male juvenile officers connected with the Juvenile Division perform similar duties in regard to boys 
under eighteen years of age as do policewomen in regard to girls under eighteen. 

The Police Matrons perform duties similar to those of the jailers in the handling of female prisoners and the 
care of the women’s ward. 


Humane Officers, Matrons and Policewomen 


Top row —T. E. Bell. H. H. Morck, Juvenile Officer. 

Second row — Mrs. Fay Hicks, Matron; Mrs, E. W. Harris. Policewoman: Mrs. Nana Atkinson. Matron; Mrs. M. J. Kelly. Matron. 

Bottom row — Mrs. M. R. Dahnken, Policewoman; Mrs. J. E. Briggs, Policewoman ; Mrs. B. H. Mason, Supt. Women's Division ; Mrs. M. C. DeHan, Human Officer. 











History of the Seattle Police Department 


Press Reporters 


E ver since newspapers became a part of the daily 
life of the public, a chronicle of the events of the 
day, newspapermen have, perhaps, been in closer 
relations with the police than any other class of 
civilians. A large part of the daily news has its incep¬ 
tion in and through the police department, and it there¬ 
fore necessitates the big newspapers to maintain reporters 
on the “police run.” 

Every Seattle paper, at least, is more or less depend¬ 
ent on the police beat to furnish it with the headline 
news. The assignment is one of the most important 
from the news view, and some of the best known Seattle 
newspapermen have in time past served their terms in 
the press room at police headquarters. 

Generally speaking, the relation between the police¬ 
man and the reporter is that of good comradeship and 
co-operation. Because of his daily contact with the 
policeman and his work and troubles, the reporter who 
stays on the police beat for any length of time becomes, 
often, a policeman in spirit. Likewise the copper also 
gets to look at many of his cases from the news point. 
It often happens that the policeman is able to give the 
reporter a valuable tip and in turn are often given 
important information or aid. They work together, 
perhaps from different angles, but it is common sense 
that they be friends. 

There is occasional antagonism between indi¬ 
viduals, as always occurs when a large number of men 
are concerned, but this rather proves than disproves 
the rule of comradeship. 

The wise police reporter will see that he makes 
friends of as many of the coppers as possible, for he 
never knows where and when his next story is to break 
from, and it behooves him to have friends to aid him 
in his news chasing, rather than an enemy to impede his 
work. 

Policemen are easy to be friendly with, if a person 
will only halfway try to understand their work, their 
problems, troubles and daily life. The average police¬ 
man is the same as the average man in any other walk 
of life—he is just as human as the man who wears 
civilian clothes and just as desirous of a good word and 
friendship as anyone else. 

Newspapermen and policemen are, in a way, the 
pariahs of society—they are the ones “always making 
trouble for everybody” by the simple doing of their 
duty. They are knocked and denounced together, the 
policeman for arresting a violator and the reporter for 
writing the account of the arrest. 

The pressroom, given the dubious honor of shar¬ 
ing the same sacred corridor as the chief of police and 
the inspector, is the pulse of the police station, in a 
manner. There is centered the latest news of all the 
doings of the force, from the latest clues from Captain 
Tennant’s quarters to the impending dicision by Chief 


Severyns as to whether Ballard or Columbia is the 
furthest out. And this can be done only through the 
good will and co-operation of the police themselves. 

In the old days, when a dry squad was an unheard 
of thing, old Room 13 was the most important office 
in the building. It was the “club room” of the depart¬ 
ment, and many are the fond memories of certain 
newspapermen, now high in their profession, of that 
dingy little stuffy room on the lower floor. Many 
would shed a tear if they know the ignominy it has 
undergone, now being used as a “dry room” for the 
dry squad’s wet clothing. 

“13” produced many not forgotton police reporters 
of the host of newschasers who came and went in such 
numbers that their names are past recalling. But what 
old-time policeman will forget Carl Anderson, now a 
managing editor in San Francisco; Johnnie Dreher, 
who has dropped to the depths of golf editor for the 
Seattle Times; Bill Jones, the “human tank,” now 
foisting radio outfits on innocent citizens; John F. Dore, 
now a Seattle attorney; Louis Sefrit, Bill Chandler, 
Eddie Carpenter, and untold others? They made them¬ 
selves a part of police history, not because of their jour¬ 
nalistic ability, but because of their good comradeship 
with the policemen with whom they worked. 

But this is not written as an eulogy to the departed 
police reporters, but rather to show that the cop appre¬ 
ciates a friend and is not the inhuman, unfriendly crea¬ 
ture that so many of his enemies would have us believe 
him. 

Co-operation should be the spirit between the 
newspaperman and the policeman. Each can help the 
other times untold, and to an extent unmeasurable. 

The reporter is wise who respects a confidence 
placed in him by his friend the policeman. He should 
never betray that confidence, or else he will find him¬ 
self “frozen out” on many an advance news tip or the 
real inside data on a choice story. 

Such an attitude invites the policeman to give 
the reporter advance tips on a coming story, to prepare 
himself and not be rushed when the story breaks for 
publication. The routine police report often does not 
contain one half of the real news, and it pays the 
reporter well to stand high in the confidence of the 
policeman. 

I have been asked by fellow newspapermen why I 
did not seek another beat, to be away from those 
“roughneck bulls.” There may be more desirable news¬ 
paper jobs for the ordinary news chaser than the police 
beat, where white-collared gentry give one an interview 
in choice, selected language. But I’ll take the police 
beat, where I know that nearly all are real white men 
under their seemingly rough exterior. 

The door of the pressroom is never closed. The 
open door is the invitation for every policeman to come 
in and be friends. 



City Pound Department 

Left to right — Asst. Poundmasters D. D. Watson, J. \V. Abel, Jas. Lenair, W. E. Vrooman, Poundmaster J. F. Oliver. 





History of the Seattle Police Department 



Police Precinct No. 2, Ballard Sub-Station 
Location: 5400 Ballard Avenue (Cor. 42nd Ave. N. \V. and Ballard Avenue) 



Police Precinct No. 3, Georgetown Sub-Station 
Location: Intersection of Hth Ave. So., Stanley and Bailey Streets 











History of the Seattle Police Department 



Police Precinct No. 4, West Seattle Sub-Station 


Location: 4315 West Alaska Street 



Police Precinct No. 5, Columbia City Sub-Station 
Location: 4921 Rainier Avenue (Cor. Rainier Ave. and Hudson St.) 



Police Precinct No. 6, Densmore Sub-Station 
Location: 4423 Densmore Avenue (Cor. North 45th St. and Densmore Avenue) 








































History of the Seattle Police Department 



T) ROBABLY more inherently a part of the University 
community than any other thing is the $488,000 
Stadium which, though but three years old, is already 
noted for its athletic contests and for the production, 
during two summers, of the mammoth pageant, “The 
Wayfarer.’’ 

The Stadium was built in a period of six months 
in 1920, a gigantic feat of engineering and hydraulics, 
which entailed the removal of 230,000 cubic feet of 
earth, and the use of 687,000,000 gallons of water for 
hydraulic power. The structure—a great horseshoe— 
contains 30,000 cubic feet of concrete, 106 tons of 
re-enforcing steel, 100,000 feet of lumber in the benches. 


It has a seating capacity of 30,000, and ultimately will 
be enlarged to seat 60,000. Construction work actually 
began on May 27, 1920, and the great bowl was com¬ 
pleted on November 27, on which day it was first put 
to use for a now historic football game between the 
University of Washington and Dartmouth College. 

On many occasions since that time has every seat 
in the Washington Stadium been filled. Seattle’s com¬ 
munal Fourth of July celebrations are held there. It 
has been the scene of many other athletic contests. And 
during the summers of 1921 and 1922, “The Way¬ 
farer,” a great spectacle, in which 5,000 men and wo¬ 
men participated, was performed on its stage 


NS? 

Army and Navy Honor Roll, Seattle Police Department 


H. G. O’Brien, Inspector 


F. A. Wise, Patrolman _ __Navy 

F. M. Myers, Patrolman ... _ _ _ — Navy 

C. O. Delp, Patrolman___Navy 

F. W. McCaffrey, Patrolman _ Q. M. Corps 

B. W. Morris, Patrolman _ .. _Q. M. Corps 

C. W. Bell, Patrolman.. _ _ _ Q. M. Corps 

R. D. Van Horne, Patrolman _ _ _ Navy 

W. E. Goodwin, Patrolman _ _ _ Navy 

E. W. Merkley, Patrolman ... ... — . Army 

R. V. Campbell, Patrolman ... „ - Army 

G. G. Montgomery, Patrolman _ _ — Army 

R. C. Eckstrand, Patrolman - - - Navy 

Ernest Yoris, Detective_ Navy 

C. C. Fortner, Detective_Navy 

A. V. Ohlstrom, Patrolman _ __ - Army 

Edwin Wilson, Patrolman. _ Navy 

H. D. Kimsey, Patrolman — — Army 

Jos. Bianchi, Detective _ _ _ Army 

C. G. Stanley, Detective_ _ _ Army 


Signal Corps 


F. R. Gladwin, Patrolman . . _ Navy 

H. D. Michener, Lieutenant _Army 

R. L. Boggess, Sergeant_Army 

R. B. Brightman, Patrolman _Navy 

Thos. Hartnett, Patrolman _Army 

A. R. Johnson, Patrolman _ _ _ _ Army 

E. B. Oakes, Patrolman . _ _Army 

H. J. Weedin, Driver_ Army 

L. M. Mclnnis, Stenographer_ __ Army 

John Yosting, Patrolman _ _ _ _Army 

G. N. Finnell, Patrolman _ Army 

R. B. Colby, Patrolman_Army 

F. A. Gaskill, Stenographer_Tanks 

Ben Stangland, Patrolman__ Army 

H. C. Egbert, Patrolman _ Navy 

J. E. Boughton, Patrolman_Tanks 

C. J. Clark, Patrolman_ _ _Tanks 

G. G. Evans, Stenographer. _ _ .War Dept. 

W. H. West, Patrolman _ Army 













































History of the Seattle Police Department 


Police Officers Killed on Duty 

name entered service k 

William T. Angle_ _12-17-20_ 1 

W. H. Cunliffe_ 1- 4-08_ 

J. P. Davis__ 1- 1-09_ 

H. L. Harris_ 8-10-10_ : 

L. E. Kost _ 8-10-15_l: 

C. O. Legate_ _____ _ 3- 1-07_ 

A. B. Luntsford ___ 2-18-19_ 

Neil C. McMillan. _ 1- 4-21_ 

Jas. O'Brien_ 7-18-10_ 

T. G. Roberts_ _ 

A. K. Ruckart_12-20-13_1 

Mathias Rude____,_ 7- 1-10_ 

V. L. Stevens_ 8-10-07_ 

J. F. Weedin'_ 12-29-93__ 

James Wells_1 

Edw. Wilson___ 1- 1-14_ 

R. R. Wiley_ 2- 1-15__ 


Personnel of the Seattle Police Department 


W. B. SEVERYNS, Chief _Appointed June 5, 1922 

H. G. O’BRIEN, Inspector _Appointed February 24, 1905 


^ uzaie oi 

Name Captains Appointment 

D. F. Willard (Retired)_December 19, 1887 

M. T. Powers (Retired)_August 28, 1890 

W. H. Searing_March 12, 1900 

Hans Damm _June 1, 1901 

C. G. Bannick_September 9, 1901 

E. C. Collier_February 17, 1902 

J. T. Mason_ August 20, 1902 

E. L. Hedges_ _November 1, 1904 

J. J. Haag_ _____December 1, 1911 

Lieutenants 

A. J. Wilkes_ October 19, 1897 

F. A. Ribbach (Retired)_November 16, 1899 

C. G. Carr_March 1, 1902 

J. W. Smith_ _ October 4, 1906 

R. W. Olmsted_May 13, 1907 

G. V. Hasselblad_July 4, 1 908 

G. H. Comstock_May 25, 1909 

J. H. Thomas_September 1, 1909 

J. L. Allen_ _ August 18, 1910 

Sergeants 

S. A. Hadeen (Deceased)_June 9, 1893 

F. E. Bryant (Retired)_August 5, 1897 

P. F. Looker_July 12, 1900 

W. E. Carr_July 13, 1901 

P. H. Jennings_..._ August 20, 1902 

J. S. Donlan_June 15, 1904 


Name 

P. F. Keefe_ 

Frank Olmsted ___ 

I. C. Lee_ 

J. L. Zimmerman 

M. D. Pence_ 

W. H. Steen_ 

J. Bjarnason _ 

L. P. Larsen _ 

H. L. Unland_ 

L. J. Forbes_ 

W. S. White_ 

C. F. Watson_ 

G. S. Norton_ 

L. L. Norton_ 

G. W. Wilson ___ 
G. E. Buchanan __ 

E. C. Griffin_ 

L. W. Miller_ 

W. J. Sears.__ 

J. J. Crawford 

W. J. Carey_ 

J. R. Moore_ 

G. F. Howard_ 


Date of 
Appointment 

November 1, 1904 
____January 17, 1905 

_January 17, 1905 

_January 17, 1905 

_February 1, 1906 

_May 29, 1907 

_May 29, 1907 

_August 10, 1907 

December 28, 1907 

_July 2, 1908 

_July 6, 1908 

_ May 25, 1909 

...January 25, 1910 

_ March 1, 1911 

_June 9, 1911 

..December 14, 1912 

_January 6, 1913 

.__ January 6, 1913 

_July 15, 1913 

September 25, 1913 
..February 17, 1915 

_May 6, 1915 

________ July 19, 1917 


Patrolmen , 1 st Grade 

Hans Aaslund _ January 1, 1909 

V. Allemeersch _February 19, 1918 























































































History of the Seattle Police Department 


Name 

A. G. Anderson_ 

K. G. Anderson_ 

N. P. Anderson_ 

L. P. Applequist_... 

M. S. Arbogast_ 

R. W. Arnold_ _ 

R. F. Baerman_ 

E. Barr _ 

T. M. Bartlett_ 

F. H. Bertrand_ 

G. D. Bilodeau_ 

C. W. Boles..... 

J. E. Boughton_ 

G. H. Bower_ 

T. J. Boyd_ 

E. F. Brafford_ 

F. H. Braillard_ .... 

J. A. Brandon_ 

A. F. Brewer_ 

Robt. Bridges _ 

W. G. Briggs_ 

T. I. Brooks_ 

H. P. Brown_ 

C. L. Bryant_ 

M. Buckley _ 

P. C. Buckley_ 

C. J. Byers_ 

W. H. Campbell_ 

O. Carpenter (Deceased) 

U. M. Carson_ 

J. M. Christensen_ 

M. R. Clawson_ 

R. B. Colby_ 

G. C. Collins_ 

L. H. Collins_ 

M. Conroy _ 

W. A. Cox_ 

Wm. Cronk _ 

F. E. Dallman_ 

E. E. Darnell_ _ 

E. B. Davis_ 

J. H. Davis_ 

John DeBoer _ 

J. Decker _ 

C. C. Delp_ 

Walter Dench _ 

W. O. Densmore_ 

W. F. Donlan_ 

A. Donohoe __ 

R. C. Eckstrand_ 

Jas. Eggan - 

E. S. Elliott_ 

W. A. Elliott_ 

A. S. Evans_ 

C. E. Failing_ _ 

E. D. Farrow_ 

E. Faust _ 

G. N. Finnell_ 


Date of 
Appointment 

_April 19, 1919 

_August 9, 1917 

_July 21, 1917 

_August 14, 1905 

December 20, 1913 

_July 1, 1911 

November 19, 1918 

_July 19, 1917 

_June 3, 1911 

_ July 21, 1917 

...March 1, 1911 
November 12, 1906 

_ June 16, 1907 

...September 9, 1911 

_July 6, 1908 

_ April 14, 1907 

_ June 1, 1912 

_ January 1, 1908 

May 16, 1907 
February 17, 1919 
December 20, 1913 

. _June 11, 1906 

_ July 19, 1917 

... February 5, 1919 

_July 30, 1918 

December 24, 1911 
...November 2, 1906 
.. August 7, 1907 
January 16, 1918 

_ January 6, 1913 

- January 21, 1910 
December 20, 1913 
. ..December 2, 1915 
... January 1, 1912 
.... January 1, 1909 

_April 19, 1915 

February 12, 1915 
... - -April 5, 1910 

_ January 5, 1913 

.... February 6, 1919 
_- February 5, 1919 
December 20, 1913 
November 1, 1906 

_ August 1, 1917 

. .February 24, 1915 
..... July 20, 1917 
....January 22, 1920 
.August 14, 1905 

....._July 19, 1917 

_July 23, 1917 

_March 1, 1911 

January 16, 1918 

_ July 30, 1917 

_May 25, 1909 

.. February 14, 1919 
February 25, 1919 
October 26, 1911 
_July 20, 1917 


Name 

H. M. Flint_ 

F. L. Flora_ 

C. D. I'ol 1 rich_ 

G. J. Fuller_ 

L. C. Gay_ 

E. Geiser _ 

W. D. Gibson_ 

F. R. Gladwin_ _ 

L. H. Graham_ 

A. A. Gray_ 

C. F. Gray_ 

D. Griffin _ 

O. Gulbranson _ 

A. Gunterman _ 

Robt. Hagen _ 

C. E. Hakes_ 

A. E. Hale_ 

Jas. Hamilton _ 

A. G. Hansen.... _ 

A. J. Hansen_ 

J. F. Harrington_ 

D. J. Hart_ 

Thos. Hartnett _ 

A. B. Harty_ 

C. J. Hatch _ 

J. J. Hayes_ 

L. C. Haynes_ 

E. J. Helms_ 

J. J. Heughan_ 

A. J. Hill ... 

W. E. Hillis... 

C. S. Hodge...... __ 

J. A. Hodge_ .. 

Oscar Holm (Deceased) 

G. E. Holmes_ 

H. A. Horton _ 

W. R. Hughett_ 

F. E. Hugo_ _ .... 

G. C. Humes.... _ 

H. J. Huhn ... 

Fred Ivey _ _ 

A. C. Jacobson_ 

S. E. Jennings_ _ 

Albert Johnson _ 

A. R, Johnson_ . .... 

D. C. Johnson_ _ 

R. S. Johnson_ 

C. M. Johnston_ _ 

G. T. Jones_ 

W. J. Jones_ _ 

J. H. Karlberg — 

H. W. Kemper_ _ 

H. D. Kimsey_ _ 

John Kinney _ 

W. B. Kirtley 

J. J. Kush_ 

J. L. LaVigne_ 

Henry Leik _ 


Date of 
Appointment 

...November 15, 1910 

_January 5, 1913 

... December 22, 1911 

_March 18, 1912 

...March 16, 190/ 

_June 3, 1911 

September 14, 1911 
... .. August 13, 1917 

_April 3, 1919 

... ...January 1, 1 909 
...January 16, 1918 
November 25, 1918 
April 1, 1919 

__April 9, 1910 

_July 23, 1917 

.April 8, 1911 

_June 9, 1910 

_ July 23, 1917 

December 20, 1913 

_August 11, 1914 

_January 16, 1919 

_November 1, 1904 

...September 12, 1912 

_February 1, 1915 

_ April 5, 1910 

_ July 20, 1917 

_May 25, 1919 

_May 25, 1900 

_July 26, 1917 

...April 22, 1919 

_July 23, 1917 

.. February 22, 1908 
—February 21, 1908 

_January 1, 1909 

_ March 1, 1906 

June 9, 1910 

_January 20, 1904 

_ January 5, 1913 

November 13, 1900 
... January 16, 1906 
July 23, 1917 
—. January 19, 1914 
_ August 10, 1917 

_ January 1, 1909 

February 16, 1918 

_ January 1, 1909 

_ June 10, 1911 

October 15, 1912 

_January 1, 1909 

_ April 12, 1910 

_February 6, 1919 

. February 3, 1919 
July 8, 1912 
—April 19, 1915 

_ March 4, 1919 

.December 20, 1913 
...November 12, 1906 
_January 24, 1906 























































































































History of the Seattle Police Department 


Name 

R. L. Litsey_ 

F. B. Littau_ 

J. B. Little_ 

J. F. Little_ 

Henry Loeser _ 

A. B. Luntsford (Deceased) 

F. W. McCaffrey_— 

J. D. McClurg_ 

J. R. McMillin_ 

P. P. McNamee_ 

M. J. Maher_ 

M. A. Mead_ 

B. A. Mero_ 

Chas. Meyer _ 

Max Meyer _ 

J. H. Meyers_ 

Fred Mills _ 

N. P. Moore_ 

B. W. Morris_ 

P. E. Morris_ 

W. G. Morrison_ 

R. R. Moulton_ 

H. F. Mull_ 

F. J. Mullen_ 

Jas. Neylon _ 

A. Nottingham _ 

E. B. Oakes_ 

S. H. Odell_ 

W. C. O’Gorman_ 

A. V. Ohlstrom —_ 

Peter Olson _ 

J. B. Orser_ 

R. Ozura _ _ 

C. R. Packard_ 

G. W. Patton_ 

R. W. Peay_ _ 

J. L. Pederson_ _ 

W. L. Pendergast_ 

C. B. Peterson_ _ _ 

Edw. Peterson _ _ _ 

H. G. Peterson_ 

J. D. Peterson_ 

A. H. Petri_ 

F. J. Phillips_ 

J. O. Revelle_ 

G. F. Reynolds_ _ _ 

J. A. Rivers_ 

C. E. Rix_ _ 

J. R. Robinson_ 

R. V. Roesler_ 

C. E. Roselius___ 

J. W. Rothaus_ 

T. J. Rudd_ 

H. J. Rush_ 

Orgie Rush _ 

C. O. Scott_ 

E. C. Scully_ 

H. H. Sebenick_ 


Date of 
Appointment 

.December 16, 1902 

_July 27, 1917 

_July 19, 1917 

—April 20, 1910 
November 1, 1906 
February 18, 1919 
May 18, 1911 
October 19, 1897 
_March 17, 1912 

— January 16, 1918 
--October 14, 1918 
_April 24, 1911 

February 3, 1910 

_April 6, 1910 

November 10, 1913 

_May 1, 1911 

_April 20, 1910 

—March 25, 1911 

_July 18, 1910 

—January 17, 1909 
-December 20, 1913 
_ .January 20, 1918 
_July 30, 1917 

— May 25, 1909 
_October 2, 1913 

— January 22, 1919 

_March 30, 1915 

_ October 2, 1913 

_May 29, 1915 

_January 1, 1914 

_April 1, 1919 

_May 20, 1915 

August 13, 1917 

_May 1, 1911 

September 27, 1910 

_July 25, 1917 

December 20, 1907 

— January 1, 1909 
September 5, 1914 

_April 7, 1910 

_August 8, 1917 

_July 7, 1909 

-February 1, 1915 
November 1, 1904 

_July 2, 1908 

— July 26, 1917 
...January 16, 1919 

_May 25, 1909 

-August 14, 1907 
- April 1, 1903 

_June 3, 1909 

_July 25, 1917 

_May 25. 1909 

_April 13, 1907 

— -October 31, 1914 
— April 7, 1910 

January 16, 1918 
December 20, 1913 


Name 

E. E. Simmons_ 

E. E. Sheumaker_ 

Carl Skoor _ 

Aldrich Smith _ 

C. E. Smith__ 

H. C. Smith_ 

J. E. Smith — _ 

F. W. Speir_ 

C. G. Stanley_ 

G. A. Storaasli_ 

J. D. Sullivan_ 

H. G. Sutton_ 

C. J. Swanson- _ 

G. C. Taylor_ 

J. C. Tedford_ 

E. M. Thomas_ 

W. J. Tobin_ 

F. S. Towle_ _ 

A. E. Tracy_ 

Bert Tvedt _ 

D. Twohig _ 

A. W. Van Stone_ 

J. S. Veitch_ 

P. P. Vike_ 

C. E. Walsh_ 

Thos. Walsh _ 

W. M. Walsh_ 

Irving Ward (Retired) 

R. L. Webb_ 

P. R. Welch-_ 

W. H. West_ 

Chas. Whiting_ 

B. H. Williams_ 

E. J. Wilson_ 

R. N. Wilson _ 

F. A. Wise_ 

C. O. Wolcott _ 

A. R. Wolff_ - 

W. A. Wood_ 

A. J. Woodlock _ 

T. B. Wright— 

John Yosting_ — 

O. N. Youngs-_ 


Date of 
Appointment 

_July 15, 1913 

_April 28, 1910 

_April 4, 1919 

_August 19, 1910 

—January 20, 1905 
December 21, 1908 

_January 1, 1908 

.September 13, 1905 

_June 11, 1911 

_January 5, 1913 

_January 1, 1909 

_March 23, 1918 

-December 20, 1913 

_August 16, 1917 

—April 14, 1919 

_May 27, 1919 

_May 25, 1909 

September 29, 1908 
November 14, 1913 

_January 1, 1909 

November 11, 1918 

_August 13, 1917 

_April 20, 1910 

—_July 24, 1917 

_April, 2, 1919 

_July 19, 1917 

December 20, 1913 

_June 1, 1894 

_July 27, 1917 

_May 25, 1909 

-November 1, 1904 

_August 11, 1910 

_ April 7, 1910 

_May 16, 1907 

_June 18, 1912 

_July 28, 1917 

—February 13, 1907 

_May 25, 1909 

_April 24, 1911 

.-January 11, 1909 

_June 19, 1906 

_March 18, 1912 

_August 27, 1909 


Patrolmen , 2 nd Grade 

Chas. Anshus _ _January 1, 1914 

C. W. Black_November 15, 1919 

W. E. Bobbitt- _January 1, 1914 

O. L. Cameron _ January 16, 1920 

W. C. Christensen- _ June 21, 1920 

G. W. Christy_ _ _ _January 1, 1920 

E. E. Covell_January 13, 1920 

P. F. Dorian-January 16, 1920 

S. E. Dotson. _ September 30, 1919 

Morris Fine_ _ January 16, 1920 

L. J. Gardner_June 29, 1920 

K. H. Gustafson November 15, 1919 

H. J. Hayes _ December 14, 1919 

H. A. Holmes_January 6, 1920 


























































































































History of the Seattle Police Department 


Name 


O. K. Holschumaker_July 1, 


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14, 

22 , 

16, 

20 , 

29, 


Date of 
Appointment 

1920 
1920 

1919 

1920 
1920 
1920 

1919 

1920 
1919 

1919 

1920 
1920 
1920 
1919 
1919 
1919 

1919 

1920 
1919 
1910 
1919 


31, 

20 , 

15, 

14, 

14, 

29, 

13, 

30, 
18, 

14, 


S. J. Jorgensen-January 

Francis Keefe_ November 

P. Kenyon-January 

C. L. Kemper- January 

J. R. McCarthy_January 

R. J. Mahoney_October 

R. Marshall_February 2, 

L. L. Mead-November 14, 

I. C. Okker_November 14, 

C. O. Perry-January 24, 

R. S. Rulaford_January 

C. Simmons_January 

C. S. Stanhope_November 

J. F. Stevens_ November 

A. Swanson_November 

C. E. Tedrick_August 

C. D. Thorington_January 

H. VanGilder_December 

J. L. Williston_July 

M. Zuarri_November 

Patrolmen, 3rd Grade 

A. A. Ballou_January 1, 1921 

E. L. Berry_January 7, 1920 

C. Brodnix_December 21, 1920 

J. H. Burt_ August 2, 1920 

J. B. Clark_June 2, 1911 

J. A. Collier_July 1, 1920 

A. J. Comer_January 1, 1912 

W. G. Cottle_January 5, 1921 

E. H. Davey_January 5, 1921 

A. L. Delaney_January 24, 1920 

E. J. Dell_June 30, 1920 

Thos. Feek_July 6, 1920 

W. A. Feek_November 22, 1920 

J. J. Fenton_January 3, 1921 

R. L. Forlefer_January 1, 1921 

J. A. Haguewood_January 5, 1921 

J. J. Haley_November 30, 1920 

J. A. Harsell_August 9, 1920 

Edw. Henry_January 1, 1921 

C. W. Henton_December 20, 1920 

T. W. Housman_ December 9, 1920 

B. T. Hunt_December 29, 1920 

Bruce Jordan_June 30, 1920 

L. V. Lally_January 5, 1921 

L. C. Laraway_ January 1, 1921 

L. B. Larson_July 16, 1920 

J. H. Lee_July 6, 1920 

L. A. Lovejoy_December 30, 1920 

C. F. Luce_July 1, 1920 

R. C. McWade_July 1, 1920 

S. A. Madden_L-July 8, 1921 

M. Manning_January 1, 1921 

E. W. Merkley_ October 1, 1920 

D. Minckler_June 30, 1920 

R. M. O’Banion_ January 3, 1921 

W. J. O’Brien_October 1, 1920 


Date of 

Name Appointment 

J. E. Prince_,_October 1, 1920 

E. M. Playford_July 1, 1920 

O. L. Redden_ July 6, 1920 

A. E. Sandell _August 12, 1915 

T. J. Sawyer _January 3, 1921 

R. H. Scheible._January 5, 1921 

M. C. Short_September 8, 1920 

Wm. Stephens_ _ June 30, 1920 

W. F. Stevenson_ January 5, 1921 

F. E. Tinsley_January 5, 1921 

P. L. Whalen_ June 30, 1920 

J. C. Wilson - _January 5, 1921 

Patrolmen, 4 th Grade 


W. C. Batten_ 

J. F. Beall_ 

G. T. Belland_ 

W. E. Berg_ 

J. W. Bolen_ 

F. H. Borneman_ 

H. G. Broughton 

R. R. Cline_ 

J. W. Collins_ 

M. A. Coons_ 

G. F. Cowen_ 

G. Fulkerson_ 

V. E. Gilmour_ 

C. J. Guettel_ 

H. H. Harlow _ 

F. R. Higginbotham 

D. G. Hogan_ 

C. E. Holben_ 

A. W. Holm_ 

H. W. Howard - 

B. M. Hull_ 

J. W. Hull_ 

R. A. James_ 

G. C. Jensen _ 

E. N. Johnson_ 

G. G. Kidwell_ 

C. F. Lee_ 

Geo. Lindoff_ 

Fred Lipke_ 

C. H. McCain _ 

J. H. McCulloch - 

H. C. McLennan_ 

Isaac Martin_ 

L. A. Monroe_ 

E. A. Munk_ 

F. E. Mills_ 

H. B. Newell_ 

C. L. Norris_ 

G. W. Norris _ 

C. A. Overholt 

G. W. Perry_ 

F. A. Pierce_ 

P. Pizor _ _ 

J. P. Potter_ 

M, J. Powers_ 


-November 9, 

_October 7, 

_March 22, 

-January 18, 
-January 17, 

_May 26, 

_June 15, 

—January 11, 

_May 10, 

November 11, 

_June 5, 

—January 24, 

_June 14, 

_May 7, 

—September 1, 
—December 6, 

_May 9, 

_July 2, 

_ May 12, 

_May 1, 

_January 5, 

_March 23, 

January 23, 
January 23, 
--February 5, 

_May 6, 

—.March 22, 
November 13, 

_July 20, 

_January 6, 

_May 9, 

_April 16, 

_May 13, 

_May 6, 

_May 6, 

_June 27, 

_May 7, 

_January 8, 

_January 6, 

_May 2, 

..-January 10, 

_April 14, 

—April 11, 
—March 21, 

..-May 6, 


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1922 
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1921 

1922 

1921 

1920 

1922 

1921 
1921 
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1921 
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1921 

1922 
1921 

1921 

1922 
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1921 
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1921 

1922 
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1921 
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History of the Seattle Police Department 


Name 

Wm. Reynolds __ 
F. W. Robinson 

B. A. Sands_ 

C. A. Seaver. _ 

R. C. Segur _ 

Geo. Snyder_ 

N. A. Storaasli _ 

E. C. Stout_ 

R. J. Swingler_ 

S. H. Short_ 

D. Thompson 

J. F. Thompson^ 
R. R. Thompson 

E. Vallet_ 

W. H. Voltz_ 

R. L. Wood 

H. E. Wormwood 


Date of 
Appointment 

_May 9, 1921 

September 21, 1921 

_May 6, 1921 

_March 4, 1922 

_March 31, 1922 

_ August 3, 1921 

._ January 27, 1921 
.May 10, 1921 
- .March 21, 1921 

_July 9, 1920 

. November 9, 1921 
- August 5, 1921 
-January 14, 1921 
-March 1, 1922 

_May 21, 1921 

—January 27, 1921 
_August 2, 1921 


Humane Officers 

Peter Mayberg _March 1, 1906 

T. E. Bell_ _June 19, 1906 

Mrs. M. C. DeHan _June 1, 1907 

Juvenile Officer 

H. H. Mork _January 1, 1909 


Office 

Sergeants 


F. C. Fuqua_ .... 

_. _ _August 4. 

1908 

R. F. Newton _ 

_May 25, 

1909 

H. T. Kent _ 

_January 1, 

1912 

W. J. Strecker_ 

_July 27, 

1917 


Patrolmen 


T. D. Sullivan _ 

_June 19, 

1906 

J. A. Czech_ 

_April 10, 

1915 

F. I. Miller_ 

_April 26, 

1918 

E. T. Hunt - - 

. _ _March 20, 

1919 

M. C. Scrafford .. 

_ _ ...November 15, 

1919 


Detective Division 

Captain of Detectives 

Charles Tennant _September 3, 


Lieutenants of Detectives 


W. B. Kent _ 

W. E. Justus _ 

J. M. Byrne_ 

_ _October 4, 

_November 17, 

Detectives 

_June 1 5. 

M. J. McNamee_ 

..._June 1, 

William Petersen_ 

_ _May 10, 

A. A. Brown_ 

_ _October 4, 

T. J. Hayden_ 

_ _ _ _July 24, 

James Doom 

_July 7, 

J. D. Landis_ 

__ _July 2, 

J. F. Majewski_ 

_November 15, 

H. M. Barton_ 

_ _ . June 1, 

G. W. Humphrey.. 

_ __August 14, 

J. P. Smith _ 

_January 1, 

D. J. McLennan_ 

_January 1, 


1897 


1904 

1910 


1894 

1906 

1903 

1904 

1906 

1907 

1908 
1910 
1906 

1905 

1909 
1909 


Name 

L. C. Harris_ 

C. L. Toms_ 

C. J. Waechter_ 

T. G. Montgomery 

C. H. Phillips_ 

W. S. McGraw_ 

C. M. Ballard_ 

C. C. Fortner_ 

E. W. Yoris_ 

Joseph Bianchi_ 

M. M. Freeman_ 

S. Simundson — ___ 
W. A. Fuller_ 

D. M. Blaine _ 

G. L. Gordon_ 

F. W. Richardson... 
P. C. Christensen 
O. I. VanBuskirk... 

M. J. Cleary._ 

J. L. Williams_ 

Frank DuCett_ 

R. C. Watson_ 


Date of 
Appointment 

...... April 6, 1908 

_May 25, 1909 

_April 11, 1910 

_May 13, 1908 

_October 1, 1888 

...... May 25, 1909 

—March 16, 1907 

_April 29, 1912 

December 20, 1913 
.— -May 14, 1909 

_July 22,1897 

_May 29, 1907 

_May 18, 1911 

....May 25, 1909 
...May 25, 1909 

_March 23, 1915 

September 9, 1907 

_May 25, 1909 

..... July 30, 1917 

_August 5, 1907 

_July 2, 1908 

..... April 23, 1919 


Executive and General Offices 

Chief Clerk 


Lieut. H. D. Michener_ 

_May 25, 


Patrolmen 


J. T. McGill_ 


_May 25, 

H. N. Potter (Detective)_ 

. January 28, 

J. W. Phelps_ 


_April 11. 


Stenographers 

L. M. Mclnnis_ 


.... June 26, 

G. G. Evans_ 


_April 25, 

R. M. English_ 


_August 26, 

F. A. Gaskill — 


January 19, 

Philip Girten ___. „ 


..February 10, 

T. K. Wild 


_March 1, 

Louis Stokke _ 


_March 1, 

A. H. Callahan .... 


.October 16, 

F. E. Sweeney_ 


_August 12, 

K. E. Kohler_ 


September 18, 

C. T. McKee_ 


...October 19, 

E. G. Sands _ 


February 22, 

Detective Division Offices 

Lieutenant of Detectives 

W. G. Witzke_ 

Detectives 

_March 3, 

J. E. Flint _ 


_August 12, 

A. D. Opdyke_ 


...January 12, 

J. W. Sampson .... 


..December 20, 

R. R. Herbert_ 


_July 23, 


Junior Secretary 

R. E. McCullough 

Photographer 

September 14, 

L. Bradley_ 


...October 23, 


1909 


1909 

1909 

1910 


1917 

1913 

1917 

1913 

1919 

1920 
1920 
1920 
1920 
1922 

1922 

1923 


1912 


1914 

1907 

1913 
1917 

1914 


1912 





























































































History of the Seattle Police Department 


Patrol Maintenance 


Name Auto Drivers Appointment 

D. W. Keane_ August 1, 1904 

G. R. Osborne_November 1, 1904 

E. Eisler_January 16, 1906 

T. L. McCoy_ January 16, 1906 

C. Howaldt_December 20, 1907 

E. F. Hawkinson_May 1, 1909 

J. G. Barr_ October 9, 1909 

C. W. Bell_April 30, 1912 

H. J. Weedin_January 1, 1914 

M. W. Palmer_ January 3, 1914 

Jails 

Chief Guard 

Thomas Nash_January 16, 1916 

Chief Jailer 

W. I. Smith_May 25, 1909 

Patrolmen 

G. T. Philbrick (Retired)_June 7, 1889 

A. N. Mayou_March 19, 1899 

W. R. Mead_November 5, 1906 

T. T. Fowles_May 29, 1907 

Rory McDonald_March 8, 1912 

F. P. Wright_May 8, 1913 

Matrons 

Mrs. M. J. Kelley_August 1, 1904 

Mrs. Nana Atkinson_June 8, 1909 

Mrs. S. Dougan_March 28, 1918 

Mrs. Fay Hicks_August 15, 1919 

Cook 

C. J. Astrup_August 31, 1909 

E. L. Hollingsworth_._December 8, 1909 


Women’s Protective Division 

Superintendent 


Mrs. B. H. Mason_ _ _ _March 18, 

Policewomen 

Mrs. J. E. Briggs_September 11, 

Mrs. M. R. Dahnken_ __ _ October 23, 

Mrs. E. W. Harris_January 1, 

Mrs. S. A. Hunsicker . _ _ August 1, 

Miss Amelia Sorenson _ _October 18, 


Signal System 


C. L. Lynch _ 

Electrician 

_March 1, 

J. H. Boles_ 

M. Blair_ 

Linemen 

_April 1, 

_July 16, 

H. E. Clark 

Instrument Man 

November 7, 

M. J. Cudahy 

Lineman’s Helper 

_Julv 1. 


Pounds 


J. F. Oliver_ 

Pound Master 

January 21, 

Assistant Pound Masters 

J. W. Abel _October 19, 

James Lenair_March 1, 

D. D. Watson_January 17, 

W. E. Vrooman_April 6, 



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1912 

1912 

1914 

1915 
1922 


1902 


1908 

1922 


1918 


1922 


1908 


1908 

1910 

1918 

1920 


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History of the Seattle Police Department 


T HE publication of a book of this order is a large undertaking, one demanding 
that assistance and co-operation be sought in many quarters. In every com¬ 
munity there are those worthy individuals and firms willing to assist a project 
having as its object the ideals which find expression through the pages of this pub¬ 
lication. 

To those individuals and concerns, named as follows, appreciation is expressed 
for their support and co-operation: 


Puget Sound Light Id Power Co. 
Todd Dry Dock, Inc. 

Pacific Telephone Id Telegraph 
Company 

Metropolitan Building Com¬ 
pany 

Seattle Auditorium Co. 
Metropolitan Business College 
Central Storage Co. 

C. D. Stimson 
Howland Id Pederson 
Thomas Burke 
Seattle Lighting Company 
Sears Roebuck Id Company 
Sears Id Enos 

Merrill Id Ring Lumber Com¬ 
pany 

St. Theresas Convent 
Standard Oil Company 
Wakefield Id Son 
Washington Title Insurance 
Company 
Albert Hansen 
Heffernan Engine Works 
First National Bank of Seattle 
Hotel Frye 

Gersix Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany 

Port Blakeley Mills 
Pioneer Lumber Company 
International Stevedoring Com¬ 
pany 

J. E. Johnson 

Seattle Rainier Valley Railroad 
Company 

Portland Cordage Company 
Puget Sound Machinery Depot 
Baxter Id Baxter 
William P. Harper Id Son 
Gerald Frink 
C. C. Belknap 
Crane Company 
Hofius Steel Company 
Matson Terminal, Inc. 

Isaacson Iron Works 
Oldsmobile Motor Company 
Dwyer Id Company 
Henry Broderick 


Puget Sound Bridge Id Dredging 
Company 

West Waterway Lumber Com¬ 
pany 

Hotel Wilhard 
Hydraulic Supply Company 
Seattle Chain Id Manufacturing 
Company 

Seattle Cedar Lumber Company 
John Roebling’s Sons Company 
Roslyn Fuel Company 
U. S. Rubber Company 
Shameck Brothers 
Hood Tractor Company 
Kelley-Clarke Company 
Otis Elevator Company 
Pacific Car Id Foundry Com¬ 
pany 

Packard Seattle Company 
Pacific Creosoting Company 
Superior Portland Cement 
Company 
Brown Brothers 
American Radiator Company 
Bank of California 
John A. Campbell 
Cheasty’s, Incorporated, Golf 
Shop 

S. Christenson 
Colonial Theatre 
J. M. Colman Company 
Crescent Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany 

JohnDanz 
E. A. Gottstein 

Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills 
Northern Lead Company 
Owl Drug Company 
Sumner Prescott Company 
George F. Thorndyke 
Turner Id Pease Company 
Washington Tug Id Barge Com¬ 
pany 

Wallin Id Nordstrom 
West Id Wheeler 
Leary Building Company 
Lee Wakefield 


Walworth Manufacturing 
Company 

West Seattle State Bank 
Eugene Way 
Spelger Id Hurlburt 
Sorrento Hotel 
D. F. Buckingham 
Matchett Id Macklem Company- 
Booth Fisheries 

Stetson Ross Machine Company 
Toledo Scale Company 
Trick Id Murray 
United Business Corporation of 
America 

Rev. M. A. Matthews 
University State Bank 
Velvet Ice Cream Company 
Washington Dairy Products 
Company 

Washington Cut Glass Com¬ 
pany 

J. A. McEachern Company, Inc. 
Magnolia Milling Company 
George W. Miller Company 
Metropolitan Garage 
North American Times 
Occident Baking Company 
T. O’Neil 

Asceptic Furniture Company 
Black and White Hat Shop 
Dagg Derneden Company 
Edward’s Ice Machine Company 
Hamilton Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany 

Hardeman Hat Company 
T. M. Henderson Saddlery 
Company 

Great Northern Construction 
Company 

Alaska Fish Company 
American Smelting Id Refining 
Company 

American Express Company 
Equitable Life Insurance Com¬ 
pany 

H. B. Earling 
Emmanuel Id Company 




History of the Seattle Police Department 


To those individuals and concerns, named as follows, appreciation is expressed 
for their support and co-operation: 


Ballard Marine Railway, Inc. 

J. A. Baillargeon 
The Bradner Company 
A. C. Fry Id Company 
Garford Motor Truck Com¬ 
pany 

Eversole Optical Company 
Field’s Millinery Company 
Fred C. Ewing Company 
J. G. Fox Id Company 
The Forest Line 
Pope Id Sibley Company 
Poole Electric Company 
H. L. Polglase 

Puget Sound Sheet Metal Com¬ 
pany 

Queen Anne Theatre 
Claude C. Ramsey 
Ben Peterson 

Pacific Coast Stamp Works 
Pacific Coast Syrup Company 
H. E. Plank 

Puget Sound Stevedoring Com¬ 
pany 

John E. Price 

Puget Sound Mill Id Timber 
Company 

Puget Sound Lumber Company 
H. C. Ramsey 
G. Rams tad 
Percival Collins 
Phillips Shoe Company 
Johnson-Lieber Company 
Hans Pedersen 
Max Kuner Company 
Seattle Optical Company 
Seattle Drug Company 
Seattle Abstract Company 
Salmon Bay Foundry 
Simonds Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany 

Sherman Printing Company 
Seattle Paper Company 
Donald Smith 
Seattle Shipbuilding Id Dry 
Dock Company 
Lumberman’s Trust Company 
Libby, McNeil & Libby 
Lidgerwood Manufacturing 
Company 

Liberty Apartments 
Lester Id Monahan, Inc. 

Walter Fulton 
Chas. E. Peabody 
Rex Pharmacy 


National Steel Construction 
Company 

Independent Paper Stock Com¬ 
pany 

S. G. Rogers 

Robinson Tile & Supply Com¬ 
pany 

Rickenbacker Motor Company 
Robinson Thurlton Id Com¬ 
pany 

Richardson Id Holland, Inc. 

R. P. Russell 

The Rubber Service Company 
Ross, Incorporated 
The Rogers Company 
Salmon Bay Foundry Company 
Sands Motor Company 
George Samac 
Schram Id Ware, Inc. 

R. Schultz 
J. W. Selover 

Sebastian Stuart Fish Company 
Seattle Consignment House 
Seattle Eye, Ear, Nose Id Throat 
Infirmary 

Seattle Chair Id Woodworking 
Company 

Seattle Automobile Sales Com¬ 
pany 

Seattle Commission Company 
Seattle Garage Company 
Seattle Hardwood Id Floor 
Company 
H. E. Sharp 

Smith Wall Paper Company 

Smith Id Sherman 

Hidden Inlet Packing Company 

F. T. Hunter Id Company 
Independent Brokerage 
Pacific Coast Leather Company 
Pacific Picture Frame Company 
Pacific Belting Company 
Palace Hotel 

Peters Id Powell 

G. Id G. Theatre Company 
Society Theatre 
Gardner, Gardner Id Fischer 

Company, Inc. 

Gedlund Id Johnson 

T. F. Gaine 
Golden Loan Office 
General Hauling Id Transfer 

Company 

Golden Shoe Company 
Giles Drug Company 
Gem Theatre 


W. J. Goulett Id Company 
Frederick’s Shoe Repairing 
Company 

P. J. Givnan Electric Company 

H. A. Frederick 

Signe W. Erickson 

C. M. Everitt Id Company 

Hotel Europe 

Fidalgo Island Packing Com¬ 
pany 

J. M. Fisher 

James Farrell Id Company 
Farm Equipment Company 
Foster-Morgan Lumber Com¬ 
pany 

Doctors Freer Id Braden 
H. J Fraser Id Company 
A. B. C. Storage Company 
Ainsworth Id Dunn 
Alaska Lighterage Id Com¬ 
mission Company 
Alaska Hardware Company 
Advertisers Engraving Com¬ 
pany 

Arnstein Simon Id Company 
Annette Island Packing Com¬ 
pany 

Arensberg Auto Supply Com- 
pany 

Automobile Underwriting 
Agency 

Ballard Drop Forge Company 
Ballou Id Wright 
Barrymore Hotel 
P. G. Baker 

Battle, Hulbert, Gates Id Helsell 
Bausman, Oldham, Bullitt Id 
Eg german 

Bericault Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany 

Bevins Drug Company 
Belforth Apartments 
William J. Bernard 
Blanchard Street Auto Repair 
Shop 

Boston Cafe 

American Sea Trading Com¬ 
pany 

Amherst Hotel 

H. S. Emerson Id Company, Inc. 
Eckart News Agency 
Auto Sheet Metal Factory Com¬ 
pany 

Atlas Sheet Metal Works 
Automotive Service Company 
George W. Ausorg 





History of the Seattle Police Department 


To those individuals and concerns, named as follows, appreciation is expressed 
for their support and co-operation: 


Gray Lumber & Shingle Com¬ 
pany 

Walter B. Allen 
Abram Apartments 
Odey Allen 

J. Bornstein & Sons, Inc. 

J. H. Blackis 
H. Gorty 

John Gourley Company 
Grinstead & Laube 
Grand Union Laundry 
O. B. Griffiths 
Dr. J. H. Harter 
Harrison & Van Dyke 
William Hanford 
Frank Wright 
Mr. Fleming 

H. D. Shoemaker & Company 
Hastings & Stedman 
Herr, Bayley & Croson 
Harbor Pharmacy 
George J. Hall 
J. C. Howells Company 
Lakeview Grocery 
J. M. Cunningham 
Capitol Hill Market 
R. C. Booth 
American Sheet Metal & 
Plumbing Company 
Auburn Egg & Poultry Com¬ 
pany 

Alhambra Cash Grocery 

A. W. Allen 

Bee Hive Marketeria, Inc. 

City Dye Works 
Carlson Hotel 

Camp Lewis Wireless Company 

Brie Drug Company 

Charles W. Anderson 

Baker & Kribbs 

W. M. Beebe 

City Product Company 

B. C. Abney 

C. A. Anderson Transfer Com¬ 
pany 

A. Backer 
Edward Berling 
Thomas Beveridge 
R. O. Black 

Blue Ribbon Garage 
Berg oust-Davis Company 
Brat tain’s Pharmacy 

B. J. Brown 
Oscar Collins 
Crown Garage 
Davis Brothers 


Elliott Realty Company 
East Union Garage 
Favorite Garage 

C. DeLong 

R. E. Fry 

Georgetown Undertaking Com¬ 
pany 

Golden Rule Grocery 

S. B. Hicks Company 

F. J. Hutchison 

W. Huplinger Employment 
Agency 

Keife & Meslan 
Eagle Pharmacy 
Home Baking Company 

F. A. Larson 
Alaska Junk Company 
F. A. Bales 

Baker Drug Company 
Bush Cafe 

Cherry Street Garage 
McCreery Tire Company 
William McKay Company 
Ed McHan 
Lee McKenzie 
A. Magnano Company 

F. J. Martin 
MacRae Brothers 
Mackie & Barnes 
Dr. H. F. Macbeth 
Frank Manning 
Madison Dye Works 

C. A. Mauk Lumber Company 
Miller’s Grill 

Dr. P. Metcalfe 
Addison Miller 
Merchants Parcel Delivery 

D. E. Mittentold 

Miller Transfer Company 
Dr. J. L. McGrew 
Meltzer Brothers 
Motor Service Garage 
Modern Appliance Company 
Mueller’s Fur Store 
Moler’s Barber School 
Mutual Creamery 
Montgomery Elevator Com¬ 
pany 

Motor Tool Supply Company 
Mt. Baker Park Garage 
Mother’s Favorite Cookie Com¬ 
pany 

Neuss Boat Company 
New Avon Hotel 
New Port Fisheries 

G. B. Nicoll 


Netherlands-American Mort¬ 
gage Bank 

National Fuel Company 
Northern Machine Manufactur¬ 
ing Company 
Norman Garage 
The Nut House 
Northern Commerce Company 

G. D. Olds 
Thomas A. Olsen 

Southern Alberta Lumber Com¬ 
pany 

New York Waist House 
Spring Hill Fuel Company 
Commercial Welding & Manu¬ 
facturing Company 
John L. Hume 
C. H. Steffens 
W. O. Standring 
Dwight N. Stevens 

H. B. Stewart 
Standard Corporation 
S. C. Stepeus 

i Standard Manufacturing Com- 
pany 

J. A. Stout 
J. Stubb 

E. A. Strout 

Stuart Packing Corporation 

H. A. Stratton 
Swanson Welding Works 
E. C. Swan 

Dr. R. C. Swinburne 
Sweet Sixteen 
Frank G. Taylor 
W. B. Thompson 
Troy Laundry Company 
James W. Thompson 

E. Tate 

Walter Thompson 
Tubstuff Company 

F. B. Trader 
J. P. Todd 

I. R. Ritchey 

Union Auto Spring Works 
United Warehouse Company 
John Van Dyke 
Valley Meat Company 
Vogue La Rose Hair Shop 
L. Walters 

Warren Drug Company 
Walter Bowman & Company 
Bill Warner, Inc. 

The Washington Route 

G. T. Wallstead 

Western Wallboard Company 




History of the Seattle Police Department 


To those individuals and concerns, named as follows, appreciation is expressed 
for their support and co-operation: 


White 8 Bollard, Inc. 

Wenatchee Court 

West Coast Iron Works 

Weeding 8 Taube 

West Seattle Transfer Company 

A. P. Williams 

J. E. Williams 

Otto Wolfe 

Wood’s Music Company 
York Grocery 
Zeeb Iron Wroks 
Hotel Lenox 
Carl L. Leon 
Jessie A. Lehr 
Leschi Machine Works 
J. Levin 

Leschi Boat House 
Lueben’s Constuming Company 
Liberty Cafe 

H. E. Lippman 8 Company 
Lloyd Transfer Company 
Little’s Motor Sales Company 
Leach Brothers Iron Works 
Liberty Dance Hall 
Mount Baker Pharmacy 
Owl Messenger Company 
H. N. Woilfield 
James P. Henderson 
Madrona Grocery 
Gillam-Bird Stationery Com¬ 
pany 

Gordon T. Shaw 
John Graham 

Queen City Floral Company 
Granger Motor Company 

M. D. Haire 

Savoy Taxi Cab Company 

Olaf Gustafson 

Bell Loan Office 

Hardy 8 Company 

H. M. Hansen 

A. Hagen 8 Sons 

E. H. Hamlin 8 Company 

M. Haffstram 

N. Hansen 
Hageman Brothers 
P. H. Hayes 

W. W. Harvin 

J. H. Heathey 

Heep’s Lunch 

Henry Schmidt 

Henry 8 McFee 

H. C. Allison 8 Company 

Alix Hotel 

Arrow Coal Company 
Florence Anderson 


Archweld Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany 

Architectural Decorating Com¬ 
pany 

American Oyster House 
J. Anderson 

Arrow Electric Company 

Clarence R. Anderson 

Thomas M. Askren 

F. W. Bailey 

L. J. Benson 

Gus Beckman 

Beacon Trading Company 

Berry’s Art 8 Crafts Shop 

C. H. Blackwell 

E. F. Blaine 

Bogle, Merritt 8 Bogle 

Boylston Hotel 

Boston Cafe 

Boulevard Inn 

E. Braden 

Breen Electric Sign Company 
Brick Brothers 
A. Bracky 
Peter Brailey 
Hunt Breller Company 
Chas. R. Brower 8 Company 

O. W. Brown Timber Supply 
Company 
Alex Brons 
Brodie Sales Company 
Superior Fish Company 
Fred C. Brown 
Bronson, Robinson 8 Jones 
System Delivery Company 
J. A. Swartz 
Swan Ringwood 
Buckle 8 Noon, Inc. 

Burgard Sargent Company 

W. T. Butler 

E. W. Swan 

L. H. Butcher Company 

E. D. Burdett 

Butler Drug Company 

Butler Cafe 

Burlington Hotel 

Byers 8 Byers 

Butch’s, Inc. 

Capitol Dye Works 

C. W. Carter 

Canal Tire Company, Inc. 

A. M. Castle 8 Company of 
Washington 

N. Campbell Mills 
V. Campeal 
J. H. Closson 


City Mills 
C. H. Clark 

Chandler-Hudson Company 
City Sheet Metal Works 

O. T. Clark, Inc. 

City Ice 8 Cold Storage Com¬ 
pany 

C. L. Churchill 
City of Paris 

Howard Eastman Company 
A. P. Chapman 8 Company 
Club Baths, Inc. 

Cornelius Cafe 
Roy W. Corbett 
Commonwaelth Finance Com¬ 
pany 

Dr. J. E. Clark 
Colonial Meat Company 
Cobb Healy Investment Com¬ 
pany 

E. A. Cruse 
William Curtiss 
Covey Wet Wash 

S. L. Davison 

Dan Davies 8 Company 
DeClercq Wirth Company 
George Davis 

Dairy Machinery Company 

T. D. Derby 

Deep Sea Salmon Company 
M. D. Dale 
R. Dalvendahl 
J. B. F. Davis 8 Son 

G. E. DeSteiguer 
A. J. Dahlgren 8 Company 
Davis Marine Lumber Com¬ 
pany, Inc. 

E. Dowd 

George H. Dowling 
Arthur L. Doran 
Donworth, Todd 8 Higgins 
Deidricks 8 Stockman 
Donaldson Drug Company 

A. S. Downell 

Dunham Confectionery Com¬ 
pany 

R. M. Haggerman 
Elliott Tire Shop 
Eggert Shoe Company 
E. 8 E. Bakery 
Polk’s Directory 
Fairview Hotel 
W. J. London Company 

B. W. Fey 

Fish Clearing House 




History of the Seattle Police Department 


To those individuals and concerns, named as follows, appreciation is expressed 
for their support and co-operation: 


Rustad Plumbing & Heating 
Company 

Fobes Supply Company 
J. B. Folsasa 

B. F. Ford 
Flemmnig & Moore 
Louie Fritz 
Federal Hotel 
Chas. Chicick 

F. E. Olliger 

Ottawa Hotel 

William Pavlick 

Pacific Type Setting Company 

N. A. Partlow Company 
Pacific Manifolding Book Com¬ 
pany 

Perry & Foster 
Packard & Thraill 
Palace Fish & Oyster Company 
Les Parteno 

E. Pearson 

Pacific Meat Packing Company 
Pacific Lumber & Shingle Com¬ 
pany 

Peter Thomason 
Pacific Music Company 
Palace Cafe 

Dr. T. William Parker 
Peoples Cafe 

Pacific Alaska Coffee Company 

O. Peterson 

Pioneer Tug Company 
Popple & Knowles Company 
Powell Pharmacy 
Pioneer Storage Company 
Pickwick Hotel 

F. C. Powell 

C. S. Premo 

Public Market & Department 
Store 

Puget Sound Fish Company 

A. & P. Products Company 

Puritan Meat Market 

L. Prato Company 

Public Market Delivery 

Queen Hatchery 

Rex Metal Works 

Queen Anne Floral Company 

Rees Brothers 

Rainier Heights Pharmacy 

Rehan Hotel 

A. Louis Rash 

S. F. Racine 

H. Reid 

J. N. Raybould 

Johnston Apartments 


King Lubrication Sales Com¬ 
pany 

Jones Grossman Company 
Jacobson Goldberg Company, 
Inc. 

Jordan-Wentworth & Com¬ 
pany 

E. Y. Jeffery 

T. E. Jones 

Jensen Brothers 

D. A. Johnson 

Kane, The Tailor 

W. G. Kennedy 

Kerr, Gifford & Company 

Walter Keene 

C. E. Kann 

The Kaufer Company 
Ezra Knapp 

J. Webb Kitchen Company 
King Plumbing & Heating 
Company 

Kroll Map Company 

D. D. Kuliss 
Lane Hotel 
George W. Lawton 
James D. Lacy Company 
Lambert Transfer Company 
Laing Shipping Company 
Jacob Lavensky 

Kay Transfer & Storage Com¬ 
pany 

Mathew W. Hill 
High School Pharmacy 
Howell Hotel 
Wasserman Laboratories 
Horse Shoe Hotel 
Independent Laundry 
Ideal Pharmacy 

Interbay Transfer & Fuel Com¬ 
pany 

Inverness Apartment 
Reynolds, Ballinger & Hutson 
Redwood Cash Grocery 
Riddell & Brackett 
H. W. Rupert 
Rusk, Cathcart, Waite, Inc. 
Romano Auto Repair Company 
Louis Rubenstein 
M. Rosenberg 
John Roloff 

Royal Transfer Company 
Rollins, Burdick, Hunter Com¬ 
pany 

Rosmond Goodrich 
S. W. Saper 
Sallisbury Hotel 


Seattle Cap Manuafcturing 

Seattle Poultry Company 

Shively Tow Boat Company 

J. A. Schwartz 

George Scofield 

W. H. Seaborn 

Seligmann Jewelry Company 

Seattle Auto Company 

Seattle Notion Company 

Seattle Fur Sales Agency 

Al Sharp 

Dr. Sharpies 

Simon & Arches 

Dr. J. T. Slaughters 

C. M. Smith Company 

E. L. Skeel 
Silvain & Butler 
R. W. Henry 

Hill Top Shoe Shop 
High School Market 
T. W. Hougg 
Home Supply Company 

D. P. Holman 

Hyak Auto Repair Company 
C. Hutchinson 
International Restaurant 
Ideal Bowling Alley 
John S. Jurey 
J. J. Jennelle 
Jenson & Benton 
Jackson Street Bakery 
John Jacobs 
M. Johnson 
C. A. Jones 
R. B. Kellam 
C. Kelly 

Kaminoffs Grocery 
Kerr, McCord & Ivey 

F. S. Kent 
Kinnear Garage 

H. L. Klein & Son 
Knox Hotel 
James B. Kinne 
Kwan & Meggs Garage 
W. H. Lawton 
Joe La Prine 

Pacific Printing Company 
Iva Post 

Porter Apartments 
Puzey Employment Agency 
Preston Hotel 
J. H. Pugh 

G. H. Preston 
Shrader Cafe 

Puget Sound Drug Goods 




History of the Seattle Police Department 


To those individuals and concerns, named as follows, appreciation is expressed 
for their support and co-operation: 


Purcell Safe Company 
B. Marcus Priteca 
Regents Grocery 

O. K. Waffle House 

Olive Street Bottling Works 
Odell Goodner 
Park's Cafe 

Patents Novelties Manufac¬ 
turing Company 
Palmer B. Hendricks 
Perkins Glass Id Fixture Com¬ 
pany 

P. T. Petkovets 
E. W. Pettit 

A. J. Pearse Foundry Company 
Philbrick Cutter Head Com¬ 
pany 

Panama Machinery 
S. A. Perkins 
O. C. Palmer 

B. T. Peisturp 
Al Pacsi 

R. Petkovits 

Ted J. Peterson Grocery 
Joe Frati Company 
Dave Fuxon 

S. Freedom 
Bowman Apartment 
Thomas A. Garrigues 
Gatewood Pharmacy 
W. S. Geary 

Dan George 

Ernst Id Wolf Company 
Eveready Garage 
First Hill Drug Company 
Farmers Produce Company 

C. T. Fedron 
Alaska Outfitters 
R. Aldous 
Andy Adamson 

Allen Tire Id Rubber Comapny 
Albert P. Cloes Id Company 
George Alliston 
Anderson Grocery Company 
E. E. Aubert Transfer Com¬ 
pany 
E. Eleuse 
Andrew J. Balliet 
Barkey’s Dairy Lunch 
E. W. Bender 
Mike Berios 
G. C. Bennett 
Blanchard-Baird 
Nathan Biller 
Bowler Hat Company 
Boston Hotel 


Frank Bock 
Boyd Hotel 
Bone Dry Shoe Repair 
John Bozecuik 
Louis J. Bouchard 
Gus Bogan 
Boulevard Cafe 
Boulevard Chop House 
E. R. Braley 
Britt Apartments 
Brenners Bakery 
T. C. Brownlee 
Broadway Grocery 
Bull Brothers, Inc. 

Buon Gusta Cafe 
Fred By ram 
James Buckley 

Capitol Music House Company 

Cascade Sheet Metal Works 

E. T. Clease 

George Couley 

George Cooley 

Dr. W. B. Cook 

Comforts Pharmacy 

Comfort Cafe 

Cole Id Dolby 

Sam Cornell 

The Criterion 

E. L. Crider 

T. R. Cushing 
Dairy Shop 

Davis Drug Company 
Diesel Engineering Company 
A. Digleria 
Harry Dickey 

Economy Grocery Id Meat Co. 

Empress Dye Works 

East End Grocery 

Eagle Poultry 

John Gleason 

Van C. Griffin 

Grand View Apartments 

Griddle Lunch 

Dr. E. Green 

C. A. Grace 

F. Hansen 
Julien Hansen 
George Schuckle 

Seattle Reed Id Wicker Works 
Seneca Garage 
Seattle Rug Mills 
Seattle Oyster Id Fish Co. 

Dr. G. A. Sivingley 
South Park Market 
South Seattle Pharmacy 
L. L. Raymer 


Rainier Produce 
Rhoades & Pate 
Walter Roberts 
Robert A. Devers 
Robert Id Ruckles 
M. Roccia 

Roma Importing Company 
J. Rubin 

Rose Grocery Market 
Ryan Id Desmond 
Rossmore Apartments 

E. Ross Grocery 

M. Savin 
Robert F. Sandall 
A. W. Salomon 
J. B. Sargent 
Max Schwartz 

R. K. Cohn 

Martin Cohn 

Crescent Tailors 

DeBrulers 

Dearborn Bakery 

Dreamland Quick Repair Co. 

East Mercer Pharmacy 

East Cherry St. Service Station 

Georgetown Pharmacy 

O. K. Garage 

George H. Garber 

Glendale Hardware Company 

Greenwood Hardwood Co. 

A. Halpen 

C. Hamilton 

L. F. Hanger Id Company 
Hanford Bakery 

F. Hautsch 

J. H. Hemphill Grocery 

Hofer’s Busy Market 

Ish-Ka-Bibble Company 

Jersey Dairy Bakery Company 

A. T. Kellogg 

George Kirschner 

J. Knodel 

La Belle Cafe 

John Levas Grocery 

Sam Acheeff 

Alaska Grill 

Alma Grocery 

Lincoln s Clinic 

Automatic Keen Edge Co. 

D. V. Ault Id Co. 

H. G. Bain 

Mrs. Eva Bazzett 
George Bockish 

N. J. Byrne 
Capitol Garage 
Clinton Land Company 




History of the Seattle Police Department 


To those individuals and concerns, named as follows, appreciation is expressed 
for their support and co-operation: 


Castro U Burno 
Will D. Casey 
F. La Chapelle 
M. P. Claussen 
H. E. Morgan 
Model Electric Laundry 
Marne Hotel 
Mt. Baker Meat Market 
Melville Monheimer 
Model Cafe 

Neylers Electric Bakery 
Nanzer & Jackson 
Nelsons Delicatessen 
Fonda Nedeau 

R. J. Nicola 
H. E. Nelson 

H. T. Newgard 
New St. James Hotel 
Nesika Apartments 
New York Lunch 

New Richmond Laundry 

I. Nelson 

E. J. Northfield 
Northwest Commission Co. 
Northwest Coast Furniture 
Exchange 
Northern Baths 
H. D. Nowlin 

North Coast Bearing Company 
Oregon Laundry & Dye Works 
Owings Hotel 
Ogden Clark 
Aaron Orloff 
Liberty Cash Grocery 
McKay Dance Hall 
McDermont Barber Shop 
John McLaughlin 
W. B. McSorley, Jr. 

George R. Mack 
Julia Marcoll 
Martin Roberts 
Madison Drug Company 
Main Drug Company 
Madrona Variety Store 
Madison Park Fuel Yards 
Madison Park Market 
Madison Auto Service 
Madison Park Garage 

J. A. Martin Peoples Cafe 
John R. Marti 

Jules Maes 
Mildred’s Shop 
Ed. Merritt 

Modern Furniture Company 

S. A. Molen 
W. D. Murphy 


F. L. Thornton 

H. TeRoller 

Robert S. Tain 

Three Brothers Dye Works 

Tobin Brothers 

R. P. Cosslee 

Twenty-third Avenue Fuel & 
Transfer Company 

D. M. Tuenish 
Turner & Garvin 
U. S. Paper Hanging Company 
Union Street Garage 
Union Kosher Meat Market 

B. Pearl United Tailors 
Val Sonutag 

R. J. Vann 
Hotel Victoria 
Verhalen & Estep 
J. P. Van Duke 
Van Doren 

Washington Shoe Works 
Spencer Transfer Company 
South Park Farmers Association 
Mangel’s 
Ed. Sterling 

C. H. Steffen 

D. P. Stephen 

Sterling Grocery Company 
Stevis Garage 
Star Grocery Company 
Star Meat Market 
Dr. R. S. Starkey 
C. E. Stevens 
St. George Dye Works 
Stevenson, Kuen, Wheelock & 
Mir an 
Star Hotel 
J. C. Stanley 
J. Steeb 
St ell Gotes 
W. C. Stripp 

E. Striker 
A. E. Wood 

N. F. Wood 
Wyles & Foy 

Wright, Kelleher, Allen & Hilen 
R. G. Wright 
H. Woron 

Yesler Ten Cent Store 
J. M. & G. H. Yeamon 
Washington Fish Market 
Wabash Hotel 
Howard Wakeman 
Mary A. Walt 

F. N. Watson 
Washington Dye Works 


Washington Drug Company 
Washington Fish & Oyster Co. 
Warren Davis 
Western Produce Company 
West Coast Heating Company 
Westlake Pharmacy 
T. Week 
Bert Rencus 
J. S. Williamson 

O. C. Williamson Merchandise 
Company 

Mr. Wilson 
M. J. Wiliers 
J. H. Willerd 
William McKnight 
Dr. Wicklund 

P. W. Willes 
S. H. Winn 

May Helland Hair Shop 

Polishuk Brothers 

J. D. Mullone 

Joseph Lamont 

George Leonidas 

E. J. Lemieux 

Limit Restaurant 

Lightfoot Brothers 

Loggers Information Associa’n 

Linde Apartments 

S. M. Lockerby 

Lippman Bakery 

Pete Linsinger 

Longfellow 

Hansen Cafe 

George T. Hannan 

Happy Hour Cafe 

Hanuck Auto Repair 

Harrison Dye Works 

Harvard Meat Market 

E. K. Hellam 

H. C. Force 

Eyers Storage 

Ben Paris Billiard, Inc. 

Pistono & Bozzells 
Queen City Pool Room 
Tom Paputchis 
Our House 
Owl Billiards, Inc. 
Overen-Slater-Wallerius 
Columbia Pool Hall 
American Grocery 
Pastime Pool & Card Room 
R. L. Woodman, Jeweler 
First Hill Market & Grocery 
Edward Johnson 
Yates Hotel 

Washington Fir Finish Co. 




History of the Seattle Police Department 


To those individuals and concerns, named as follows, appreciation is expressed 
for their support and co-operation: 


42-Story L. C. Smith Building 
Restaurants, Inc. 

Northern Bond Id Mortgage Co. 
T. E. Phipps 

The H. F. Norton Company, 
Inc. 

Hotel Navarre 
J. D. Lowman 
Robert McCormack 
Pat McCoy 
Bambart Brothers 
Lewis Bean Id Company 
F. H. D. Block 
J. J. Bleit 

A. H. Cox Id Company 
Ederer Engineering Company 
Dupee Blythe 
Draper Engine Works 
Addressograph Sales Company 
American Export Lumber Co. . 
Mrs. O. B. Anderson 
Bowles Company 
Burton R. Stare Company 
Buckley-Tremaine Lumber Co. 
M. D. Clark 

Commercial Boiler Works 
C. B. DeMille 
Denver Hotel 
A. C. Dawson 
Emmett E. Brown 
Evergreen Cemetery of Seattle 
General Steamship Corporation 
Green Cigar Company 
F. L. Heidrich Company 
H. C. Holdt 
W. F. Jensen 
Frank H. Nowell 
Northern Life Insurance Co. 
Northwestern Photo Supply 
Company 

Jeffery O’Shea, Reverend 
E. W. O’Keefe 

Pacific Net Id Twine Company 
Pantorium Dye Works 
Pike Street Bottlers 
Ryan Fruit Company 
Rainier Restaurant 
Rainier Packing Company 
Shaw Show Case Company 


State Drug Company 
Sunset Monument Company 
Sunset Improvement Company 
Trade Printery 
Vance Lumber Company 
Washington Elevator Company 
Baker Joslyn 

Barde Industrial Company 
Washington Manufacturing 
Company 

Waite Mill Id Works Company 
Victor Boutan 
Northwest Steel Company 
Arthur B. Cunningham 
Clyde Equipment Company 
Skinner Id Eddy Shipbuilding 
Company 
Pacific Coast Forge 
Western Pipe Id Steel Works 
West Coast Produce 
Grant Smith Id Company 
Sperry Flour Mills 
Abrahamson Brick Co. 

Nelson Iron Works 
Central Drug 
Main Tailors 

Electric Fixture Id Const. Co. 
Fenmore Hotel 
Company 
Hilmer Peterson 
Pugte Sound Tent Co. 
Rautman Plumbing Id Heating 
A. J. Peon 
Strand Cafe 
Candia Bakery 
J. N. Shafer 
Staadecker Id Co. 

Strong Grocery 

R. C. Storrie Id Company 

Standard Garage, Inc. 

Emil Vontoseghel 
Western Engineering Corpora’n 
Weeds Pharmacy 
Tom Sageman 

KIRKLAND SUBSCRIBERS 

Kirkland Motor Company 
\E. J. Pratt 


B. G. Gotthart, Tailor 
T. W. Suckling 
Ware Id Berkey 
East Side Paint & Sign Co. 
Dr. Geo. H. Davis 
Gatewood Theatre 
New Kirkland Hat Company 
East Side Bakery 
Klenerts Market 
E. Brooks Grocery 
Lake Washington Telephone 
Compnay 
V. L. Elson 

Kirkland Hardware Id Furni¬ 
ture Company 
J. G. Robinson 
Kirkland Electric Company 
Dr. R. R. Ruffin 
Blain’s Garage 
Kirkland State Bank 
McIntyre Buick Agency 
Kirkland Drug Store 


BOTHELL SUBSCRIBERS 

Green’s Garage 
Oakville Shingle Company 
Bothell Bakery 
Page’s Delicatessen Id Home 
Bakery 

Bukstrom Lunch Counter 
Bothell Garage 
Co-Operative Mercantile Co. 
Bothell Pharmacy 
Chase Id Nohn Hardware Co. 
Gerhard Erickson, Inc. 

Pioneer Garage 

RENTON SUBSCRIBERS 

McPherson Furniture Id Hard- 
• ware Company 
Renton State Bank 
See Id Sons 
O. K. Garage 
Renton Agency, Inc. 

Williams Id McKnight 
Burrows Garage 

































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